Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to this, the day General Nobuyoshi Muto arrived in Mukden last week to take over his duties as Japanese Commander-in-Chief and special ambassador to Manchoukuo, Chinese guerrillas staged a desperate anti-Japanese raid. Machine guns and tanks banged away all night. The raiders succeeded in setting fire to the great Mukden arsenal three times and destroyed several planes at the airport. With the dawn they vanished. Japanese bombers zoomed off in pursuit...
...Francis relaxing in the second. The jewel thief's pack of cigarets, a few puffs of which make the smoker idiotic, fall into the hands of the police with moderately comic results. Powell invades Francis' house for a midnight call and more light comedy. The police raid farcically and in the same vein Powell does a bit of broken field running through the massed forces of the law. Powell's gestures seem modeled on those of a stage tumbler. He frequently washes his hands in air, as though drying them on an imaginary handkerchief. He clicks...
After only a few days in office the Davila Government began to run short of funds, ordered carabineers to raid all the jewelry shops in Santiago, a work they performed with a will. Lest this seizing of valuables from helpless jewelers be called "confiscation" the carabineers gave each jeweler "compensation" in the form of a receipt which he could cash in paper pesos. Thus swank Weil's received a bit of paper on which a carabineer had scribbled "350,000 pesos." Marching bands of well-fed unemployed hailed "The First Socialist Government of Chile!" Plaintively Don Victor Navarrete, Minister...
...Oklahoma City, Prohibition Agents Alter Acord and Mel West went to raid a suspected house, found it was outside their jurisdiction. A storm came up. Ten inches of rain fell on Oklahoma. The North Canadian River overflowed its banks. The suspected house floated a quarter-mile, settled inside Agents Acord & West's jurisdiction. They boarded it, seized 700 bottles of beer...
...which the veterans are passing. As a result of their efforts they are securing a vote in Congress on their pet bill, which calls for payment of $2,400,000,000 in fiat money as bonus; it is not inconceivable that these men may be able to make a raid on the Treasury, in one way or another...