Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner were the first incredible reports of the MacCormick visit to Welfare Island announced than half a dozen agencies preened themselves on having instigated the raid. Among them were the Daily News, the World-Telegram, the New York Foundation, which had paid for an investigation begun two years ago, a grand jury which had recommended an investigation of the prison's "gross mismanagement" last year. Plain, however, was the fact that it took an anti-Tammany administration to dig to the bottom of Welfare Island's cesspool of corruption...
...Baltimore Conservation Commissioner Swepson Earle hopefully inquired how many of his men had taken part in the capture. Sheriff Cooksey indignantly replied that just before the raid a conservation crew had taken their boat across the river, had refused to return and do their duty. Commissioner Earle immediately mobilized a fleet of launches, equipped one with a machine gun and a one-pound cannon and prepared to recoup lost glory by catching the next pack of poachers...
...opposite things at once is Poland's gruff temperamental, walrus-whiskered Marshal Josef Pilsudski. On the same day last week the Polish Government made historic peace overtures to Adolf Hitler-whom most Poles hate and fear-and staged with real tear-gas bombs a sensational sham air raid on Warsaw, a capital to whose citizens "air raid" means a German air raid...
...indoors "in case of gas attack." The attack came, though it was only tear gas and only a few unwary citizens were caught in the streets, promptly to be rescued by Red Cross volunteers wearing gas masks. Warsaw, a city of 1,200,000, was paralyzed by the sham raid for seven hours. That night the Government shut off all electric current to remind Warsawites that their central power station was supposed to have been destroyed...
...There were no casualties at all!" boasted a proud official of the War Ministry. "Now in our raid in Vilna several people were injured by large bags of straw dropped by the somewhat over-zealous attacking forces...