Word: raidings
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...Griesedieck brewery was raided by me upon information furnished me by my brother Heber. . . . When faced with the necessity of prosecuting the brewery officials caught in my raid, she [Mrs. Willebrandt] protected them by releasing 44 men caught redhanded and prosecuted the citizen who made the raid possible. ... At the trial of my brother she challenged every prospective juror .... who believed in Prohibition. . . . When challenged by counsel for the defendant [Heber Nations] to accuse me if she dared, she sat silent...
...passengers were revolutionists, many of them Generals, under the command of General Romano Delgado Chalbaud, exiled former chief of the Venezuelan Navy. The baggage and boxes of the revolutionists contained rifles, machine guns, ammunition. Capt. Tipplitt was in their pay. The Falke's job was to raid the coast of Venezuela...
Quickly word of the raid spread among Jews. The great gloom that had preceded Tisha B'Ab continued at this latest desecration. Leaders were indignant, pointed out that Great Britain had failed to maintain its protectorate...
...raid emphasized for Jews the significance and need of a meeting, an event, that had taken place two days before, about 1,900 miles away in Zurich, Switzerland. There, outstanding Jews of the world had assembled, for the meeting of the Jewish Council Agency, the new body uniting the Zionist and non-Zionist factions of Jewry (TIME, Aug. 19). Three hours before the fast of Tisha B'Ab began, there had been tears of joy, embracing, glad shouts of "Mazeltov!" (Congratulations) as Zionists and non-Zionists had signed a pledge to work in harmony for the Jewish National Home...
Last month at Tecumseh, Okla., a U. S. dry agent prepared to raid a farm. With him went one Jeff Harris, private citizen with no official standing except his dry zeal. During the raid Citizen Harris killed two citizen farmers (TIME, July 15). The State of Oklahoma indicted him for murder...