Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's 336th infantry regiment fought hard at Perthes-les-Hurlus. In March it was ordered into the front lines at Souain Mill. Three attempts to take a strong German position failed under withering machine gun fire, with heavy losses. The high command ordered the regiment's 21st company to attack again, at dawn on March 10. At the zero hour the supporting artillery, which had failed miserably in clearing a way through the barbed wire in No Man's Land, clumsily began to drop shells just in front of the 21st's trenches. The tired...
Furious at the news, the division commander, General Réveilhac, ordered his artillery to shell the 2 ist's trenches. He was frustrated by the artillery commander, who refused to obey without a written order. Thereupon General Réveilhac ordered the 21st to the rear, Corporals Maupas, Girard, Lefoulon and Lechat shot by a firing squad, buried under shameful black crosses...
...years the Widow Maupas worked to clear her dead husband's name. Last year a court especially constituted to review such cases ruled that the 21st had been pushed beyond the limits of human endurance, declared that the executed corporals had been valiant men, awarded their widows damages of one franc each. Meantime General Réveilhac had retired to his fine country estate, been made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, died...
Last week the genial, generous Irishman arranged to buy for $130,000 another Stock Exchange seat to present to his son William on his 21st birthday. Father Meehan also got a present-a summons from the Securities & Exchange Commission to show cause why he should not be suspended from all U. S. exchanges in which he holds memberships. SEC had reason to suspect that Mike Meehan was up to his old tricks, this time not in Radio but in Bellanca Aircraft Corp. listed on the New York Curb Exchange...
...21st collection finds Editor O'Brien viewing the future of the short story with profound alarm. The year 1934 was a bad one, in which only 200 stories were found worthy of three stars, but it was "a notable" year for new writers, producing Dorothy McCleary, Allan Seager and William Saroyan. Editor O'Brien finds the short story threatened by the developing political interests of editors and critics, utters a dark warning against Fascism - Fascism from the left as well as from right-and complains that there are now too many little magazines...