Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here We Stand." On May 19, 303 A.D., in the Algerian city of Cirta (now Constantine), one Munatus Felix, high priest of the emperor, personally led a raid on a Christian service. He took with him a stenographer, whose report, taken in shorthand, sounds disconcertingly familiar to modern ears...
...lulls, three of the rebels talked to a TIME correspondent. Yannis Fotiades had been ill with tuberculosis; he had joined the Markos rebels when they promised hospital treatment in Yugoslavia. While still convalescing he was returned to Greece for "light duty." The light duty turned out to be the raid on Salonika. "I was very tired with all that marching," he said, "so I fell prisoner...
...Nazi woman, director of all the women's organizations in the Reich. According to Nürnberg's war criminals' list, Heiszmeyer was "presumed dead," Scholtz-Klink was "dead." Witnesses had "identified" her body among those removed from Hitler's Berlin air-raid bunker...
Died. Major General Uzal Girard Ent, U.S.A. (ret.), 48, leader of the low-level mass bombing raid on the Ploesti oil refineries in 1943; after long illness; in Denver. Paralyzed from the waist down in a 1944 crash, he set an example for other paraplegics by ultimately learning to walk with braces...
Orders for the raid had come directly from Premier Maurice Duplessis, who (as Attorney General) is both executor and sponsor of the 1937 padlock law banning the use of premises for disseminating Communist propaganda "by any means whatsoever." In the 32 months before he went out of office in November 1939, Duplessis used the law eleven times. Until last week, he had not used it once since his return to power in August 1944. Now, with provincial elections just around the corner, the law seemed just the ticket for the anti-Red campaign which is supposed to bring in many...