Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cronin has previously announced that he will appoint a University official as deputy Civilian Defense chief in the college. Cronin's plans for the University include calling all students for voluntary service as air raid wardens. He will assign students to the fire, police, medical, and rescue departments. Those not assigned will form a manpower pool which will be drawn upon in the event of an attack...
...plans to conduct more air raid tests and blackouts in the near future. Students will be asked to serve as wardens during these tests. Also if attacks occur, he will order all students to clear the streets and do rescue work...
Harvard has not yet announced any "if war comes" proceedings though the Cambridge City Council and the State House have been swamped with anti-air-raid plans, including one for a 300,000 person shelter in Boston...
...Leon Bishop, a gambler, had told George that he was sent by Florida's handsome Governor Fuller Warren to Hialeah to take over crap games, roulette wheels and all gambling except horse racing. George said that Bishop walked in last December when Policeman George was helping to raid a gambling joint in Hialeah. Bishop went to the telephone. Five minutes later, George related, he was called to the telephone himself and told by another gambler to "get the hell out of there" because Leon Bishop was a close friend of the governor. Governor Warren denied George Petemezas' whole...
...jacketed, masked bandits turned up from Newton to Omaha. Brink's uniforms and burglar tools were seized in a raid by detectives in Cleveland. A dollar bill that was supposedly part of the identifiable $98,000 was seen by somebody in Salt Lake City. Dust samples from a North End truck were rushed to F.B.I. laboratories. A Brink's gun was found in back of a store in Somerville...