Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gruner, 33, a Jew with a bullet-crushed jaw and the corundum-hard eyes of an Irgun Zvai Leumi triggerman, stood before a Jerusalem Military Court. He was charged with taking part in a raid against a British police station last April. Asked to testify, he defiantly refused: "I am a soldier fighting for Zionism; I should be treated as a prisoner of war." Gruner was sentenced to death as a murderer. But what happened in Palestine last week looked more like war than common murder...
Occasionally the alliance really worked. From time to time U.S. flyers bailed out or force-landed in Siberia after a bombing raid against Japan. According to international law, the flyers could have been interned, since the U.S.S.R. was not then at war with Japan. But the Russians transported them to a convenient frontier and allowed them to "escape" into U.S. hands. Another exception was a working arrangement between U.S. and Soviet intelligence agencies, which General Deane says was not only profitable but was carried out with "the utmost cordiality and good will...
Federal narcotics officers displayed an interest in the case at the same time, as several vials of illegal drugs turned up from the police raid on Parkhurst's Bay State apartment on 1572 Massachusetts Avenue. Parkhurst, however, denied the personal use of narcotics
Almost simultaneously a quick municipal police raid on Parkhurst's suite in the Back Bay Apartments on 1572 Massachusetts Avenue yielded not only stacks of his fellow students' bursars cards, which he used as false identification to cash his looted checks, but "two truck-loads" of stolen property, according to Chief Inspector P. F. Ready...
Hammond did not start from scratch. His father, John Hays Hammond Sr., was a fabulous gold-mining engineer. With slam-bang empire-builder Cecil Rhodes, he was involved in the Jameson Raid (which helped to provoke the Boer War) and built up the world's greatest gold-producing region around Johannesburg, South Africa. These activities made him rich...