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Rebels made a grand raid on Santa Clara city, seized food and stores, killed 30 men, then withdrew to the mountains. Santa Clara is the heart of the sugar district. With sugar at 2? a pound it is now the heart of unemployment and hunger. The province gave the anti-Machado leaders their fiercest recruits. President Machado rushed there from Havana to take charge of operations and keep an eye on his own generals to be sure that none of them went over to the rebels...
...Manhattan Administrator Andrew McCampbell led 25 of his agents in a raid upon a $1,000,000 brewery where 30,000 gallons of beer were seized, four workmen arrested, a major source of supply for speakeasies cut off. Mr. McCampbell charged that the city police interfered with his agents' preliminary efforts to get evidence in the slummy neighborhood. Unsuccessful were the Government's first attempts to link the brewery's ownership to William ("Big Bill") Dwyer and Owen ("Owney") Madden. (To smoke out the owners of a $1,000,000 brewery in the fashionable Sutton Place neighborhood...
Ladies' Night. One of the most violent evenings was all for the ladies. While striking telephone operators in the centre of Barcelona flung brickbats and shrilled curses at their scab sisters in the central offices, Barcelona's Civil Governor decided that the time was ripe to raid some of the music halls on the Paralelo, Barcelona's trolley terminus and rowdiest thoroughfare, at the foot of towering Montjuich. Here, he had been informed, female entertainers were celebrating the liberty of the Republic by dancing in the raw. Po licemen looking strangely British in scarlet tunics and blue...
...Capitalist Harris Hammond; of inflammation of the brain; in Washington. Friend of royalty, diplomatic hostess (her husband was U. S. Special Ambassador to the coronation of King George V in 1911), she was with Engineer Hammond in South Africa. She fought for his freedom when, after Jameson's Raid, he was condemned to death by President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic...
Traveling with a suite which included his Venerable Mother, three of his numerous wives, half a dozen of his staff members and his suites, Marshal Chang steamed over to Dairen. Manchuria?his usual jumping off place for a plunder-raid on China...