Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Dalai Lama, his exiled rival the Panchen Lama promptly began casting about China for funds to stage a Tibetan coup (TIME, Jan. 22). Of late Nanking has buzzed with rumors that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have to proceed some 2,000 miles by caravan...
...invalid, died in the third month of the war. His second marriage, in 1863, was the social event of the year; Confederate President Jefferson Davis attended, and General Leonidas Polk donned his cast-off bishop's robes to perform the ceremony. That summer Morgan made his most famed raid, a dash into Indiana and Ohio that frightened the inhabitants but ended in defeat and capture for Morgan and most of his men. Imprisoned in the Columbus Penitentiary, Morgan and six of his officers tunneled their way out, got safely back through the Northern lines...
...this time the Confederacy was a forlorn hope. Morgan's raids were no longer either so daring or so successful. A raid into eastern Tennessee was his last. One rainy morning the house was surrounded by blue troopers; no sentinel had given the alarm. While rifles popped, Morgan dashed out through the garden, dropped dead. At his funeral in Richmond the military escort had to abandon the procession, double-time off toward the threatened defenses...
...Virginia yarn plant even if his 1,858 employes wanted to go back to work. In a letter to Conciliator Anna Weinstock of the Department of Labor he declared that it would take at least three months to repair and renew the Hopewell machinery wrecked by the night raid of the strikers. Such repairs, he said, would cost thousands of dollars?far more than Tubize Chatillon stockholders would be warranted in investing in a rehabilitation of Hopewell. The company would make no more rayon yarn in Virginia but would import whatever was needed for use on its Hopewell looms from...
This incessant bombardment by the San Francisco Press not only helped to break the strike but turned an angry citizenry loose against the supposed revolutionaries. Husky young men wearing union buttons and proudly called "vigilantes" by the newspapers began making raids on Communist headquarters. First raid was on the Western Worker, Communist daily. Five carloads of raiders drew up before the building, hurled rocks through the windows, smashed down doors, made kindling wood of every stick of furniture, tore down red banners, smashed typewriters, destroyed pamphlets and papers. A pleased and approving populace looked on from a safe distance. Five...