Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitherto Il Duce has stressed quantity. No beauties were 92 women whom he feted fortnight ago in his lofty Palazzo Venezia. They were "champion mothers," the pride of Italy, with an average of 14 living children apiece-a total approximating that of an Italian infantry regiment. To each mother Il Duce gave a fat money prize, though three were women of wealth. They had already received the Government's regular bonus of 500 lire for every child born after the seventh...
...when he was colonel of a cavalry regiment, and about to lead his men to repel the British, he stopped long enough to arrest the leaders of a Tory conspiracy and, as justice of the peace, to sentence them to jail...
...small man just about my own age. My own mustache -it's like his, don't you think? We did messenger work together. After he was wounded and made a Gefreiter he didn't take his leave but came right back to the regiment as soon as he could move about. That was a brave thing to do. Before that we were both privates together-'Gemeine Soldaten Freiwillige!' "In America I went first to Altoona. But things weren't so good. Then I go to Reading, and it wasn't much better...
Died. General Sir Arthur William Currie, 57, Wartime Commander-in-chief of the Canadian forces in France, principal and vice-chancellor since 1920 of McGill University; of pneumonia and cerebral thrombosis; in Montreal. Onetime teacher, realtor, insurance man, he commanded a volunteer regiment when War came, took an infantry brigade to France. He rose rapidly, won fame at the second battle of Ypres where his men faced poison gas for the first time, became Commander-in-chief in 1917. After his triumphal return, there were whispers that he sacrificed his men in a vainglorious desire to have the Canadians fire...
...Secretary of War, when he secured twenty days' rations for his 2070 men from an unfriendly colleague, when he dug a thousand dollars out of his own pocket to care for the sick, and when, turning over his own horses to the medical department, he herded his disheartened regiment all the way from Natchez to Nashville,--it was certainly time for a new nickname. He's "tough," exclaimed an admiring voice from the ranks. "Tough as hickory," observed another, naming the toughest thing he knew. That was in March, 1813. Andrew Jackson has been "Old Hickory" ever since...