Word: pentagonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bremerton speech (TIME, Aug. 21), was a political address, and forthwith granted a Socialist Party request for equal radio time to speak to the soldiers overseas. Six hours later the War Department reversed the decision, in a statement that sounded as if heads had rolled all over the Pentagon Building. On thinking it over, the Department now held that the President's broadcast was a "nonpolitical report...
West Pointer Tompkins was picked in May 1943 to head the planning unit. Under him is a staff of 22. In his office in the Pentagon Building, bound between pasteboard covers, filed away in desk drawers are the blueprints for the machinery needed to demobilize the greatest Army in the nation's history. Within the past month, conferences have followed one another so rapidly that Tompkins' work basket and the baskets of his staff now are chockablock with nothing but demobilization reports...
Lutes's office in the Pentagon Building would be an imposing background even for a trumpet-voiced, four-star general. Lutes, with his two stars and barely audible voice, mumbles: "I didn't want the damn thing. They built it for Admiral King and when the Navy decided not to move into the Pentagon Building I fell heir...
...every Army contract to make certain the U.S. got its money's worth. But General Browning, like many another top businessman, is in Washington only for the duration. So Colonel Hauseman was called from Philadelphia to take over. Now he puts in an eleven-hour day in his Pentagon Building office, smoothly settles canceled contracts at the rate of $1,000,000,000 monthly...
...leave of absence from his chair as Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History at Harvard, Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Taylor heads the group that is writing the official Army history of the war. Up to now Taylor has held down a desk job in the Pentagon Building at Washington, but it was reported this week that he has gone overseas or is about to leave...