Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of bigger black duck (scouts), and there a string of geese (the bombers). In about a half-hour enough planes were put in the sky to panic-strike, if not devastate, any city in the world. New Yorkers who had seen the Navy's great air "raid" (TIME, May 19) or readers of Hearstpapers who two days prior to the review had seen Cartoonist Windsor McKay's nightmarishly memorable picture of a city gassed from the skies, were more than ever impressed with the perfection of modern sea machinery...
...newsworthy things happened to the police force, topping and eventually extinguishing the Rothstein headlines. Independent of everyone, Commissioner Whalen organized an Air Unit, a training college, a magazine, dressed his men in lapel uniforms with Sam Browne belts, sent them forth to apply new, efficient traffic regulations, and to raid notorious nightclubs. His recent "disclosure" to Congress of "Red" plots in the U. S., put him into the national news. He reduced major crime in the metropolis; at a banquet some 2,000 citizens begged him to remain in office...
...seemed to most just a peevish wholesale burlesque of the U. S. Satire or burlesque, it was voted a petty piece musically and dramatically. It pleased only those who could be taken in by noisy orchestration and such cinematized scenes as a lady in her bath, a night-club raid and the last frenzied minutes of a presidential election...
...Grein raid in Chicago was the first move under what Commissioner Doran proclaimed as a nation-wide drive on hopshops. A Treasury Department interpretation of the Supreme Court decision also raised a shadowy threat of prosecution against many a potent, prosperous grape juice company now shipping an unfermented product in kegs to customers with specific instructions for transforming it into illegal wine...
Lady Leader. As No. 2 leader of the Gandhi movement, Judge Tyabji at once announced that he would carry out a project which the Saint was on the verge of attempting when jailed: a great "nonviolent raid" on the salt deposits at Dharasana. How a "raid" can be "nonviolent" is hard for occidentals to understand. The British did not try, promptly clapped No. 2 leader Tyabji into jail near Navsari. Naturally smart St. Gandhi had not omitted to name a No. 3 leader. Automatically his whole vast movement for independence was turned over to her: Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, poetess...