Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there who was gassed so badly that he will never recover. I had a sister in a hospital in France and two daughters in the hospitals here to relieve trained nurses. I would not want ever to speak to one of them again if they would join in the raid upon the Federal Treasury made by people who have never suffered any disability and thousands of them who got better treatment, better clothing, better food, better discipline after they went into the service...
...When he comes out of the combat without wounds, without disability, a veteran has no right to raid the Treasury perpetually because he was called into the contest-called in under draft, too, when it was a question of being shot here or shot at abroad...
...This year the Swarthmore girls voted to disband their sororities, to which 75% belonged. Alumnae protested and the matter is still open. Yet Swarthmore is not all innocence. Two years ago Dean Alan C. Valentine, Rhodesman who is now master of Yale's Pierson College, staged a surprise raid, found liquor in the rooms of two dozen students...
...Oriente Province, where armed rebellion still sputtered and flared last week, Cubans learned of the resourcefulness of Corporal Gort. With two privates Corporal Gort captured six men accused of participating in the rebel raid on San Luis fortnight ago (TIME, May 8) and started to march them back to Santiago. Suddenly he realized that he was outnumbered two to one. Drawing his revolver he shot four prisoners dead and herded the other two into town...
...make silver producers rich by raising silver prices. No different from any other raid on the Treasury, this attack is led by Congressmen from Nevada, Colorado. Arizona and Utah...