Word: raids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time has arrived when I feel that I must say something. I am surprised that the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Begg) has the gall to get up before the House of Representatives and not only condone but actually recommend this raid upon the United States Treasury. . . . Nobody ever believed that the money of the taxpayers would be squandered in such a manner as that. . . . What will the people who actually go out and toil say? Do you know that there are people in the United States who start early in the morning and work all day long for a dollar...
...Federal agents in Manhattan made a raid on the Orduna of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (British) and discovered whisky and morphine for smuggling. Result: a libel was filed against the ship by the U. S. District Attorney. The company was obliged to post a $1,000,000 bond before the Orduna could get clearance papers. Seven petty officers of the ship were arrested, and five of them confessed...
Followers of the Crimson ice team this year have not as much reason for gloom as the result of the Green raid would indicate, however, for if scores have shown anything, it is that consistency in either winning or losing holds no place among Harvard's habits this year. The Crimson has played its best games of the season against Princeton, yet in the first case the victory was foreshadowed by a 1-1 tie with the Maples, while the second time the only prelude was the B. A. A. rout. On another occasion a goal-aplece deadlock with...
...result of this shake-up was a top-heavy team, or one with the preponderance of strength in its forward line. While the Tiger defense was thus materially weakened, the revised front put Van Gerbig in a position where he was more able than ever to raid the opposing cage on an instant's notice...
...degrees south, had to be forcibly divorced of practically twelve thousand dollars in income tax due on capitol collected for illicit oil speculation. And Washington made known that similar steps are about to be taken against a bootleg ring which has obstinately kept its returns close. If this raid is successful the plum which falls ought to be large enough to pay for a soldiers bonus and deepen every indentation on the Atlantic Coast...