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...Yankees. But every brush cost him some irreplaceable men and horses. Besides skirmishes he was in every big battle in the East: first and second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...
...Washington Crusaders chapter held no dinner but uncorked its campaign with a loud report. It last week issued a 1930 Speakeasy Map of Washington, compiled from a seven-month raid record of the capital's police. The map showed 934 black dots, many of them grouped around the Capitol, the White House, the Department of Justice building and other Dry and official centres. Two dots reputedly were on Government prop erty. An accompanying statement said: "The Police Department has made an average of four and a half raids per day, including Sunday, during the time covered by this report...
...between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...
Nova Scotia's drought did not pass bloodlessly. At Truro, whose government liquor store could not be opened for another sennight for lack of supplies, the Rev. D. J. Grant, Chief Inspector of Nova Scotia under the old Nova Scotia Temperance Act staged a last-minute raid on the old Maritime Hotel, long suspected as a speakeasy. Raiders carried out one half-bottle of contraband rum but their chief, the Rev. D. J. Grant, had to be removed to hospital, severely battered...
Major Campbell had been spectacular, often in the headlines. He had raided clubs, night clubs, big hotels. His greatest fame came when he caused $50,000 worth of furniture in Singer Helen Morgan's nightclub to be chopped up (TIME, July 9, 1928). The evening before he went out of office his men descended upon the Hotel Ritz-Carlton while he, in a dinner coat, personally led a raid on the expensive municipally-owned Central Park Casino...