Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tipoff. Moreover, continues Zacharias, he for one knew what the Japs were likely to do, and warned Washington well in advance. As early as October 1940, Zacharias learned of an impending raid by Jap suicide planes on U.S. capital ships. The raid, of course, never came off, but "from then on, I expected a Japanese attack . . . momentarily." Navy brass, he says, shared this apprehension "only in the most perfunctory manner...
...Lincolnshire town of Grantham as works manager of the Hispano-Suiza 20-mm. cannon works (later the British Manufacture and Research Co.). With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea at 14, made $5,000 helping police raid opium dens along China's Yangtze River, run a waterfront cabaret in Shanghai. Eventually he ended up in Philadelphia as a steeplejack. Later he went to work for Philadelphia's Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. He rapidly rose to Budd's representative at France's famed...
...reprisal for a Princeton raid on the Yale Bowl, 25 Yalemen seized Princeton's radio station, overpowered its staff and broadcast Bulldog propaganda. Then they daubed Yale blue on a bronze tiger in Palmer Square, painted up a Princeton dormitory and clock, burned a "Y" into the Nassau Tavern lawn, and chopped down the Palmer Stadium goal posts. The Yale dean called it "vendetta spirit which surpasses the realm of good...
James Biggar, manager of caretaking, also labled Yard security top secret, but was clearly not inclined to fiddle while College grass plots burn. His men are primed for a repetition of the November 14 Yale commando raid on Princeton, which included burning a large "Y" on the lawn of the Nassau...
...workers and their families had obviously voted for the G.O.P., many of them for the first time; in effect they had given the Republican Party a two-year period of probation. With its warriors pointed to 1948, the G.O.P. leadership would think twice before leading them into a scalping raid at this point...