Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capone as the Hero. Searching the apartment of Gangster Terrence Druggan, police found a letter conspiring to kill Capone. Excerpt: "I am in a position to take care of the big fellow. I can do anything you want me to." Ignoring other items of news-interest in the Druggan raid, editors headlined CAPONE ON SPOT...
...friend. This brings about a reconciliation, but at the final curtain Mr. Kruger is already straining at the domestic leash, indicates that he will break away again as soon as possible. Best scene: Mr. Kruger trying to extricate himself from an embarrassing situation when his wife and a detective raid his hideaway. Room of Dreams. This play had a complicated birth-written by Daniel Coxe from a translation by James L. A. Burrell and Anne Sprague MacDonald of the original Viennese of Ernest Raoul Weiss. But polyglot parentage cannot be entirely responsible for the nonsensical finished product which ushered...
...Yankees. But every brush cost him some irreplaceable men and horses. Besides skirmishes he was in every big battle in the East: first and second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...
...Washington Crusaders chapter held no dinner but uncorked its campaign with a loud report. It last week issued a 1930 Speakeasy Map of Washington, compiled from a seven-month raid record of the capital's police. The map showed 934 black dots, many of them grouped around the Capitol, the White House, the Department of Justice building and other Dry and official centres. Two dots reputedly were on Government prop erty. An accompanying statement said: "The Police Department has made an average of four and a half raids per day, including Sunday, during the time covered by this report...
...between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...