Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waterloo Bridge (Universal) is a glum but manageable anecdote of prostitution and the War. The heroine, strolling on London's Waterloo Bridge, picks up the hero during the confusion of an air raid. He, a Canadian soldier, fails to perceive that she is a prostitute. She, because she is one, refuses to marry him. This situation could scarcely have had a cheerful resolution but the one the story gives it seems almost a conspiracy in woe. The soldier takes the girl to visit his mother and step father. She tells his mother what she is and runs away back...
Rebels made a grand raid on Santa Clara city, seized food and stores, killed 30 men, then withdrew to the mountains. Santa Clara is the heart of the sugar district. With sugar at 2? a pound it is now the heart of unemployment and hunger. The province gave the anti-Machado leaders their fiercest recruits. President Machado rushed there from Havana to take charge of operations and keep an eye on his own generals to be sure that none of them went over to the rebels...
...grinned reminiscently as the week progressed. Day by day the revolution seemed to be following the "Cuba Libre" insurrection of 1895 which led to the blowing up of the Maine and U. S. intervention. Last week, as in 1895, the insurrectos were split up into dozens of little bands, raiding, ambushing, running away to raid again somewhere else. Last week as in 1895 a stiff press censorship was clamped down on war news. Foreign correspondents were not allowed to leave Havana and spent their time like the late Richard Harding Davis collecting news from cafe tables on O'Reilly...
...Manhattan Administrator Andrew McCampbell led 25 of his agents in a raid upon a $1,000,000 brewery where 30,000 gallons of beer were seized, four workmen arrested, a major source of supply for speakeasies cut off. Mr. McCampbell charged that the city police interfered with his agents' preliminary efforts to get evidence in the slummy neighborhood. Unsuccessful were the Government's first attempts to link the brewery's ownership to William ("Big Bill") Dwyer and Owen ("Owney") Madden. (To smoke out the owners of a $1,000,000 brewery in the fashionable Sutton Place neighborhood...
Ladies' Night. One of the most violent evenings was all for the ladies. While striking telephone operators in the centre of Barcelona flung brickbats and shrilled curses at their scab sisters in the central offices, Barcelona's Civil Governor decided that the time was ripe to raid some of the music halls on the Paralelo, Barcelona's trolley terminus and rowdiest thoroughfare, at the foot of towering Montjuich. Here, he had been informed, female entertainers were celebrating the liberty of the Republic by dancing in the raw. Po licemen looking strangely British in scarlet tunics and blue...