Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warsaw's ancient, stinking ghetto last week was many a jumpy Jew who feared for his life. Hardly a day had passed without a terrorizing raid by the newly-formed Polish Nazis and a vigorous counterattack .by the young men of the ghetto. One day a gentile woman on her way through the ghetto paused to give a child a piece of candy. Instantly the ingelach (little boys) and mädelach (little girls) swarmed around her, squawling for candy. A pious Jew stopped in the narrow, stall-lined street, looked into her face, then shouted...
...Secretary Smith could invite the highbrow newspapermen he sees daily. They might have a sense of humor. If the fund should exceed the price of one cheap typewriter I'll keep the difference for the purchase of another if the first one should be wrecked in some righteous raid...
...receivership, decided to buy working control of a number of Insull utilities. Sam Insull was probably worth $100,000,000, but he did not own any great fraction of his companies' stock. He ruled them because he had built them. To head off Mr. Eaton's raid-a raid the courts have called piratical-he formed a holding company...
Violet Shore was the independent only child of a hard-bitten millionaire who had made his pile in the West and gone to Manhattan to raid the other corsairs. Gareth was one of a family of impoverished but socially correct little exiles who had been brought up to believe that they were all prodigies. Gareth's and Violet's childhood friendship might have developed into marriage, but Gareth had no money. Old Man Shore got his daughter the finest husband money could buy, and she spent the rest of her life making the best of the bargain. When...
...ending Feb. 28 there had been 188 bank hold-ups by daylight, 29 night burglaries-an average of nearly nine per week. But the half-year total was down from 340 to 217. Scrupulously the ABA report cautioned that "there were 3,000 or 4,000 less banks to raid...