Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a Manhattanite for nine years. Onetime publicity head for the late blatant Publisher Horace Liveright, she is herself far from blatant, shrinks from publicity. She is pretty but unmarried. In getting material for The Reckoning she investigated New York's Welfare Island (before the recent raid; TIME, Feb. 5). had a hard time seeing anything but the chapel...
...beaten up before policemen recognized him. As the months wore on and the strike continued, public opinion went more & more against the strikers. Kicked out of their rented headquarters, they built their own shack. One night a citizens' committee, headed by the chief of police, made a raid. Guns went off and the chief and one of the strikers' guards were killed...
...only the small holdings of his father, but the name and run-down estate of her sisters as well. Instead of working his property, Leo Fox-Donell spent his time tippling and wenching. More through inertia than patriotism he drifted into a secret political society and organized a raid on a police garrison. It failed when he stopped for a drink with his men before going to the ambush. He was still drinking when the police took him in. During his years in an English prison Leo lost the last of his holdings to an older brother and acquired instead...
...Senate sentenced one Thaddeus Hyatt to 90 days in the District of Columbia jail for refusing to testify in a Senate investigation of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry. Again for the first time in 74 years, the Senate last week meted out its own punishment to recalcitrant witnesses...
Commissioner MacCormick's clean-up was a windfall for Vanity Fair which got its February issue on the newsstands six days before Welfare Island made big black headlines. In that smartchart was an article about the prison which knowingly described most of the evil conditions uncovered by the raid. Its author was a onetime deputy Commissioner of Correction, Joseph Fulling Fishman, who calls Welfare Island "the hardest prison in the world to manage." He points to its unparalleled turnover of 30,000 inmates a year, remarks that it harbors more drug cases (1,200 a year) than all Federal...