Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police raid on City Hall opened the final heated week of the Thompson-Cermak campaign. Detectives from the State's Attorney's office seized records of the City Sealer, charged Thompson henchmen with an "organized system of cheating, shortweighing and shakedown" among Chicago fish dealers. Roared the Mayor: "A plot! A plot...
...small anteroom, papered in black, are a draped couch, and more oriental curios-among them an opium pipe, trophy of a police raid in Pittsburgh. Adjoining the anteroom is a spacious gold-walled lavatory, the plumbing fixtures of black porcelain. In a corner stands a lacquer red refrigerator with the motor disguised as a gold pagoda...
...footnote to last month's liquor raids at the University of Michigan (TIME, Feb. 23) was offered last week by President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College. To Dartmouth alumni in Chicago he said: "There seems to be a great discussion about the raiding of college fraternity houses. They shouldn't raid college fraternities unless they are going to raid country clubs and other clubs on the outside. The two stand in exactly the same position and I notice whenever I enter a club that a man who really wants a drink invariably gets...
...business deal; a small sum to a priest to say masses for another friend "who will need them wherever he is"; one share of brewery stock to every Orange Lodge and every active Protestant minister in Toronto, except "one Spracklin, who shot a hotel keeper" in an enforcement raid (when Ontario was Dry); one share of stock in a jockey club to every active minister in Walkerville, Windsor and Sandwich, Ont. But the will's most thrilling feature...
...these stories (notably those by Erich Maria Remarque, H. M. Tomlinson, Andre Maurois) are really excerpts lifted from longer books, but most are full-length. They cover: The Home Front; Behind the Front Line; In the Front Line; Battle, Raid & Patrol; The Lighter Side of War, et al. Some of the authors: John Galsworthy, W. Somerset Maugham, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Maurois, the late Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, Laurence Stallings, John W. Thomason Jr., the late C. E. Montague, Leonard Hastings Nason, "Saki" (the late H. H. Munro), Henri Barbusse, Liam O'Flaherty...