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Chicago Democrats had their orders from their mayor and boss, Anton Cermak. when Governor Roosevelt's train rolled into Union Station at 9 p. m. Two hundred thousand of them from every city ward were on hand. Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth...
Just out of a German prison camp and serving with Herbert Hoover's relief administration, U. S. Pilot Merian Coldwell Cooper was deeply shocked when a Russian cavalry detachment swooped down on a group of meanly-armed youths defending the fortified city of Lwow, sabered to death all but...
The Kosciuszko Squadron was the first military aviation unit to base on a railroad train. Headquarters, repair shops, bunks were set up in box cars to provide the mobility that Polish campaigns demanded. Receiving equivalent rank in the Polish army, the U. S. pilots were paid on the same basis...
When the advance reached the Dnieper River, the Poles found themselves badly overextended. Thirty thousand Cossack horsemen under General Simeon Mikhailevich Budenny, fresh from triumphs over
Denikin's, Kolchak's and Petlura's White armies, struck the naked Polish flank. The Poles began a retreat which did not halt until the Russians were at the gates of Warsaw. Day after day for two months the Squadron fought a 400-mi. rear-guard action...