Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan newspaper offices for the last three weeks have buzzed about a Hearst "raid" on feature writers of the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram. Over to Hearst went Fashion Writer Prunella Wood and Shopping Colyumist Alice Hughes. Last week it became known that Heywood Broun had received a Hearst offer, turned it down. Even if Colyumist Broun had lumbered away from the World-Telegram Publisher Roy Howard would have had good reason to feel pleased with the results of last week's deals in colyumists. He had conducted a quiet but more effective raid of his own: Westbrook Pegler, famed...
...were proving costly to subdue. Unarmed, with a few companions, Rhodes went among the Matabele warriors, persuaded the chiefs to air their grievances and lay down their arms. Only big mistake of Rhodes's career, which cost him the loyalty of many a South African, was the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, which it was hoped would finish President ("Oom Paul") Kruger and his Boers, bring the Transvaal into Rhodes's hands. Instead, the raid was made prematurely, and against Rhodes's last minute instructions. Kruger's Boers made short work of the raiders, and Rhodes...
...absorbing a huge bond issue, while Japan's warriors extend their sphere of conquest. To give Tokyo patriots something concrete to think about all lights were suddenly switched out in the main section of the city at 9 p. m. one night last week. Sirens screeched an air raid alarm. For one hour a government plane flew around and around dropping fireworks and leaflets. These announced that the nights of August 9, 10 and 11 have been set aside for "grand aerial maneuvers over Tokyo and the vicinity...
When foreign newshawks tried to check details of the "Red Raid" they could discover neither any of the leaflets supposed to have been dropped nor a single Berlin eyewitness who had seen them fall. Every German questioned had merely read about the raid in the Nazi Press. A foreign official claimed actual possession of a copy of the leaflets but lamely explained: "The Government has no interest in spreading such insults." British correspondents in dispatches telephoned to London were first to brand the whole affair as a complete Hitlerite lie to ballyhoo National Aviation Week, which in Germany is this...
...bandit raid attempted to seize $50,000 Mex. from the Mukden branch of National City Bank...