Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland a gang of sharpers mailed out 30,000 letters with their names at the top of the usual list, thus insuring that if anyone made money on the chain they and they alone would make it. While authorities debated who should raid the gang's headquarters, the sharpers fled with 10,000 printed letters yet unmailed...
...enemies, chiefly Henry Latham Doherty's Cities Service Co. and Standard Oil of New Jersey, who resented Mr. Parish's invasion of their territories. On Saturday, June 14, 1930 they warned him, said Witness Parish, that if he did not sell out they would start a bear raid on Missouri-Kansas stock the following Monday. Mr. Parish promptly boarded a train for New York to call on Vice President Christy Payne of Standard Oil. When he arrived the raid had already begun. Vice President Payne refused to see him until after the market closed. When Mr. Parish walked...
...Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
...TIME, March 25, under the caption Crime, do you refer to a raid in or near Leesville, which is 55 miles south of Lynchburg, Ya., or do you refer to a raid near Leesburg, Ya., which is 36 miles west of Washington, D. C., which raid was made on March 16 and 17, by Federal, State and local revenue officers...
...raid made near our town, one Federal agent was killed and one was seriously wounded. Two stills were destroyed and eight men were arrested, one of which was the "Killer...