Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory by Captain Hart, is as brilliantly unorthodox as some of the captain's own theories (he thinks the War's greatest general was T. E. Lawrence). Its history is the most exciting record of men at arms since the Russian Revolution. The outgrowth of one regiment, it owes its present effectiveness to the stress of one battle, the ability of one politician and a handful of generals, three of them Spanish...
...Fifth Regiment. Most efficient of all the Leftist militias was the Fifth Regiment, raised by the Communist Party in Madrid, and it was from that original block of 1,000 men that the present efficient People's Army of the Leftists has grown. Its development, described graphically by Leftist Volunteer Ralph Bates in the New Republic four months ago, was gradual. Other Madrileños, in the frantic first days of the capital's defense, saw that the men of the Fifth Regiment were actually being drilled before being sent into the lines, that it seemed to have...
Defense of the capital lay in the Fifth Regiment's hands. Few thought it could succeed, least of all the Leftist Cabinet, then headed by Socialist Extremist Francisco Largo Caballero. Packing up in haste, the Cabinet fled the capital secretly for Valencia, leaving official instructions for greying, amiable, José Miaja to defend Madrid or surrender as he thought best. At this point the Communist leaders of the Fifth Regiment issued a historic manifesto to all Madrid citizens telling them to build barricades in the streets, to fill bottles with gasoline for use as homemade incendiary bombs against tanks...
...evening last week John Serpico, president of International Fireworks Co., started setting off bombs as fast as he could light them. Slowly a crowd gathered, staring at the huge street banners proclaiming: TIME TO STRIKE AGAINST THE RED MENACE. Children thought it was the Fourth. Around the armory a regiment of Jersey City policemen barked: "Right inside, folks, right inside...
...barn hung over the speakers' platform : JERSEY CITY 100% AMERICAN. REDS KEEP OUT. After an interlude while entertainers kept the crowd amused, suddenly a green-jacketed, tin-hatted Hudson County Legion Band swung down the aisle blaring The Stars & Stripes Forever, followed by a color guard, a regiment of white-capped Legionnaires. The band wheeled, played the Star-Spangled Banner, a black-gowned woman sang it. Then the lesser speakers began to warm...