Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suspected of many a big holdup including the unsuccessful one at Brooklyn Navy Yard (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929) had been captured. His girl friend, who fled in the coupe, was taken not long after. Said Badman Nannery, the identity of whose license plates was disclosed in a recent raid on one of his haunts: "I didn't intend to let anybody take me alive. What gets me is the way that hick flat foot kidded me with that poker face...
First, he will raid the £33,000,000 "dollar exchange" credit maintained by the Exchequer in Manhattan. Twenty million pounds will go to balance the Budget, the remaining £13,000,000 will be transferred into Great Britain's account with the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland...
Panama. President Ricardo Alfaro sighed with relief when a timely police raid netted 40 rifles and a case of ammunition in the home of Chief of Police Alejandro Ramos of Los Santos Province, bud-nipping a revolution in Los Santos and Veragua Provinces...
Puerto Cabezas, with its 300 U. S. residents, was panic-stricken at the news of the Logtown raid. Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the Cefalu. In the harbor civilians armed themselves for the town's defense. The night was wild with rumor. Welcome indeed were the lights of the U. S. gunboat Asheville steaming in with a detachment of Marines. These were gingerly put ashore, thereby relieving a slim force of native Guardsmen...
Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton ordered a raid on his wife's farm when autopsies on three fine cows revealed they had died from eating alcoholic corn mash. Arrested for distilling: William Bryant, Mrs. Horton's resident farmer...