Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon, many a Montrealer heard the news of the raid and padlocking with shocked alarm. Sputtered Editor Gelinas, at a meeting of Communist students at McGill Union building: "This is just the beginning of Fascism in Quebec. . . . The issue is freedom of the press and freedom of thought...
...poised to strike at the Transvaal, the Times told its correspondent "to impress upon [Cecil] Rhodes that we hope the New Company will not commence business on a Saturday." The Times had no Sunday edition, and didn't want to miss out on a well-plotted scoop. (The raid started on a Sunday afternoon and the Times got its scoop...
Noel came to Harvard from the New Hampton School in New Hampton. N.H., Registrar Sargent Kennedy '23 said yesterday. The sole record of his undergraduate activities as a Kirkland House resident picture him as a member of the College Air Raid Protection Service...
...prisoner, booked as Jacob "Jack" Lewis, was captured last Friday in a raid on a South End hotel. Held for questioning over the weekend, he was arraigned yesterday morning and pleaded not guilty to charges of participation in January's smoke-bomb holdup...
...Venezuela's capital, the report spread quickly : Caracas was going to be bombed. Squads of firemen took up emergency stations. The National Guard was called out. Hundreds of families left the city for the country. Caraqueños, who have never known an air raid, need not have been panicky. President Romulo Betancourt was on top of the situation, and besides, the bombing was not due until Feb. 15, the inauguration day of his successor, Novelist Romulo Gallegos...