Word: 107th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mount to their hidden outside fighting positions through a maze of upward warrens. No sooner had the Americans seized one mouth of the tunnel than the Germans poured out of their surface positions and riddled them from the rear. The Americans finally cleared the area but not before the 107th Infantry had lost 337 men killed and 658 wounded, the heaviest loss on a single day for any U. S. regiment...
...minister in Fond du Lac, Wis. He worked for B. F. Goodrich Co.. went to War, got into advertising. One product of his War service is that he is already anonymously preserved for posterity in marble; as the central figure of New York's memorial to its 107th Regiment, he charges gallantly into Fifth Avenue at 66th Street. No believer in testimonials and the gaudier forms of advertising, he built up his agency by hard work, has devoted himself particularly to economic problems. One of his schemes made headlines fortnight ago when he proposed that, to stimulate business...
...First to call itself a National Guard was New York's 7th Regiment, now socially distinguished and officially called the 107th infantry...
Gestating 107th Street was thrown into a pandemonium which had repercussions throughout the city, the State, the nation and abroad. At first none knew or would reveal who the intended victim was. Newshawks and police suspected renewed warfare between beerleggers. Later a bookmaker named Anthony ("Big Tee") Buzzone told police he was the man, explained that the attack was the result of a bookmakers' price war. The mother of one of the shot-down children admitted: "We Italians are not courageous enough to come out and tell what we know. . . . We are afraid. They will come and kill...
Three days after the 107th Street affray, an Italian gambler and his friend were shot down four blocks away. Children, playing in front of a public school, scattered to safety in time. Day after that, a police riot squad set out in automobiles, shot down four holdup...