Word: mendoza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military biographers, his associates say that he was a good soldier, a strict disciplinarian who was liked by his subordinates. Always in his mind and on his lips was the conviction that the Army was the purest, finest, most Argentine thing in Argentina. While in charge of troops in Mendoza in 1941, he started a "crusade for spiritual renovation"-which worked out as a scheme to staff the Argentine Government with idealistic, hard-working and deeply nationalistic young Army officers...
...tough hombre is Joe Mendoza, private, first class. Once he licked a truckload of taunting soldiers one by one. On Attu last month Joe Mendoza came upon an unarmed Jap cowering behind a rock. Joe started to shoot, but his sense of fair play got the better of him. Throwing down his rifle, he whipped out a knife. Then he tossed the Jap a bayonet and beckoned him to come on. This act of gallantry frightened the Jap more than the prospect of death itself; he ran. Joe Mendoza, conscience free, shot...
...performances of other jazz improvisers. He did this by listening to their phonograph records, carefully transcribing what he heard into a musical score, then playing his score on Imperial's perforating machine. Today Imperial issues pianola rolls by such jazz artists as Fats Waller, Ted Baxter and Pete Mendoza. All are ghosted by J. Lawrence Cook...
...thrown by the Ambassador to the U.S. of the first allocatee-to-be: Venezuela. His guest list included State's Dean Acheson, Economic Defense Board's Assistant Director Colonel Royal B. Lord, and two big visiting Venezuelan buyers of supplies (Central Bank President J. M. Herrera Mendoza and Caracas Chamber of Commerce Vice President Andrés Boulton...
...globular survey" last week appeared to be coming out of the woods. This week EDB will present to OPM Venezuela's itemized 1942 needs for strategic materials and machinery. No non-strategic items were included, and the list was pared to the bone by Señores Mendoza and Boulton, rechecked by Colonel Lord's office. The agreed-upon total (10% less than Venezuela's actual purchases of similar U. S. materials in 1940): $39,543,700 worth of goods, ranging from $30,000 in steel doors for the vaults of the new Central Bank of Venezuela...