Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lists, G-4 builds and maintains buildings, leases and buys land, has charge of transportation, traffic, is accountable for all Army property. All this is right up the professional alley of Dick Moore, who has been a supervising engineer on the U. S.'s great rivers, had a detail to Peru with the United States Naval Mission in 1928-30, commanded combat engineers and headed up the Atlantic Sector of the Canal Zone. A general officer since 1938, he was in command of the 18th Infantry Brigade in the Zone when George Marshall tapped...
...Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt's hurried clasp. Their real acquaintance began at the Democratic National Convention...
...acquired it were told over fine Port Royal rum to a circle of old seamen like himself, fully able to check his reminiscences of ships, battles, commanders. Such was the Doctor's art and agility that nobody ever caught him out, except in the trifling detail that he never lost his leg the same way twice...
What the plan would be in perfected detail, the Good Neighbor was still willing to leave to the conference table. But even its outlines raised plenty of questions, north and south of the Rio Grande. Two different views had emerged last week. The Department of Commerce envisaged a U. S.-subsidized-and-managed pool of all export commodities, under central control...
...last month, Cortesi sent the Times a long, brilliantly documented dispatch telling in detail of Nazi-Communist preparations in Mexico. For months Cortesi had gathered evidence of German infiltration in Mexico, German and Russian influence over labor and the press...