Word: raids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deeply tangled in the net of one Madame de Hauteville, the Society for the Suppression of Vice in a provincial German town was about to be laughed out of existence by the delighted newspapers. Incited by one of the Society's members, the police had made a raid and discovered evidence incriminating the very executive committee of the puritans...
...Cleveland, Yee Chock was decapitated with an ordinary meat cleaver in his room in the Chinatown. Police and health officials promptly made a raid and seized about 500 Chinese. City Manager Hopkins ordered fire and health authorities to proceed with condemnation proceedings of homes and filthy firesides...
...terrifying diversity, the proximities, the contrasts, of the human spectacle which had been so long and so intimately under the observation of Victor Lawson. The item, a very inconspicuous one, spoke of another burial. It related how Eric Nelson and Ted ("Texas") Court, the marauders who died in the raid on the Drake hotel, had been shoveled into the ground at Potter's Field...
...Francisco, Federal Judge John S. Partridge threw out evidence obtained against an alleged bootlegger in a raid. He did so because the raid was conducted under a search warrant sworn out by a Prohibition agent under an assumed name. Said the court: "No sworn affidavit that deliberately misstates facts will be recognized by this court." Federal agents have been swearing out search warrants under assumed names in order to hide their identity and thereby maintain their usefulness. The action of Judge Partridge will probably result in the dismissal of several hundred cases against alleged bootleggers in which warrants were sworn...
From about Oct. 25, then, until a few days before Armistice, I put forth every effort to have this division execute some offensive operation, as a raid, against the enemy. The division was large and composed of exceptionally husky, vigorous looking soldiers, well equipped. The enemy troops against them were of second or third class, not by any means the best. I provided the most skilled French and American advisers and instructors for them in an effort to have them execute a successful raid. I never succeeded even to a slight degree. As I remember, in those three weeks this...