Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Extravagant and wasteful administration spending over a period of years created supreme contempt for balanced budgets, and a non-chalance about a few billions more added to the public debt. Yet last year the President, in one of his few truly statesmenlike messages, rallied the opponents of the bonus raid to his side and preserved enough congressional discipline to sustain his veto. Even then his career was sadly reminiscent of the parable concerning a rake's progress. This year's veto was, by contrast, innocuous and no attempt was made to hold Congress in line by applying pressure. In this...
Italy. First defense of the Italian raid came from the Marchese di Manchi di Bilici, Italian Minister to Stockholm, who cried from behind his police barricade: "Members of the Swedish ambulance unit in Ethiopia cannot expect to be as safe as if they were walking the streets of Stockholm...
Fascist officials were far less cocky. Scenting the raid's disastrous effect on foreign opinion, Under-Secretary of State Fulvio Suvich sent a guarded apology to Stockholm. The Press was ordered to make no further reference to the affair but to whoop it up for Sub-Lieut. Tito Minniti, the captured aviator whose decapitation supposedly started the trouble. At Reggio Calabria, the grimy southern town where Minniti was born, flags were half-masted and houses draped in black. Proudly his old Calabrian father cried...
...began last week a grand roundup and jailing of Moscow housewives who since the beginning of the buying boom have made a business of stocking up on every sort of household stuff. With screaming headlines in Moscow papers branding such housewives as "Speculators," the OGPU made its most spectacular raid of the week on an eight-family house in Bakunin Street, swept all housewives therein off to jail, left astonished husbands and children to return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among them...
...bombs in the Dessye raid were not the cheap lightweight fragmentation bombs of other Italian air raids. Two unexploded 200 pounders were carefully carried to the ruins of the Emperor's garden, where the Negus and his kinky-haired son posed for photographers with a foot on each, in the attitude of successful lion hunters...