Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition a U.S. District Court threw out a suit of Silberstein, president of Penn-Texas Corp., to block the Canadian Locomotive-Fairbanks, Morse stock swap. Ruled Judge Joseph Sam Perry: Penn-Texas "looks like a conspiracy of some type to raid the stock market . . . A slugging operation." After hearing testimony that Penn-Texas still owed $2,300,000 on $4,300,000 it paid for 100,000 shares of Fairbanks, Morse stock, the judge said he had "grave doubt" that Penn-Texas legally owned the shares it claimed. Crowed Bob Morse Jr.: "Obviously, Silberstein has much to learn about legitimate...
Local Civil Defense Director Edmund M. Burke Confirmed yesterday that a mass evacuation of Cambridge--with the University and Radcliffe participating--will be called this spring to test the city's new air raid warning system...
Witness for the Prosecution. In Union City, N.J., Hudson County Prosecutor Frederick T. Law neglected to tell all the members of his team that he planned to raid a local bookmaker's establishment, encountered at the scene: a city detective, a police lieutenant, one of the mayor's aides, the father and cousin of the deputy police chief...
...Shocking," "heinous," and "outrageous" were some of the terms in which members of the U.N. Security Council last week roundly condemned Israel's December raid on Syrian frontier outposts near the Sea of Galilee, in which 56 Syrians and six Israelis were killed. It was Israel's fourth such "reprisal" attack in two years, and, in the words of the U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., "a deed so out of proportion with the provocation that it cannot be accurately described as a retaliatory raid...
...business suit went to the Knesset (Parliament) together. Speaking before a packed assembly in Jerusalem, less than 500 yards from Jordan sentries' rifles, Ben-Gurion acknowledged that "security problems are bound up with foreign policy" and implied that he might have erred in ordering the Syrian raid when he did. But he defended Israel's determination to strike out at its enemy "with all the means at our disposal," whenever it felt the need. Ben-Gurion thus was firmly in control, with his ministers behind him. The government was speaking again with one voice, and that voice...