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Disorderly Teetotaler. Like his contemporary, Benjamin Disraeli, Judah P. Benjamin was a sephardic (of Spanish-Jewish ancestry) Jew. Born in 1811 at Saint Croix, Virgin Islands, he became a U.S. citizen when his drygoods-vending father was naturalized at Charleston, S.C. At 14, Judah was the youngest man in his class at Yale, and a member of the teetotaling Philencratian Society. At 16, Judah was bluntly bounced out of Yale. Probable reasons: "association with a set of disorderly fellows who were addicted to card playing and gambling," theft, mysterious temptations "which he had not the moral force to resist." Judah...
...Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Major General Terry de la M. Allen of the famed First Division (TIME, May 10) went the Croix de Guerre for their Tunisian exploits. The decorator: General Louis Koeltz, commanding General of the XIX French Army Corps...
Died. Thomas C. Neibaur, 44, World War I private whom General John J. Pershing called the war's third ranking hero; in a veterans' hospital in Walla Walla, Wash. Among his decorations were the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, the Croix de guerre. He was credited with stopping a German counterattack singlehanded in the Argonne. Sent with two other men to enfilade machine-gun nests, he stood off an attack by 50 Germans, was shot four times, fainted, revived, faced a charge by eight more Germans, shot four of them dead, captured the others, ultimately returned...
...member of the American Field Service from June to October, 1917, when he enlisted in the American forces as a private. He was commissioned a First Lieutenant Novem- ber 15 and a Captain in July, 1918. During the fighting of October 6-20, 1918 he won the Croix de Guerre for bravery. He returned to this country in April...
...broke the Hindenburg Line in the stubborn Blanc Mont sector, was in the forefront of the battle in the last days of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The division captured 12,026 prisoners altogether (about one-fourth of all captures by U.S. forces), suffered 24,429 casualties, won 2,000 Croix de Guerres...