Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After tours of duty in the Pentagon and the Pacific, he took over command of the Sixth Army with headquarters at San Francisco's Presidio. There last week death came to Joseph Warren Stilwell, 63, after an operation on the liver. A 17-gun salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...
Between junkets Monty endured the full rigors of official Washington. Monty looked distressed at a Pentagon press conference when the New York Daily News's snippety-snappety Ruth Montgomery asked if he really had an aversion to "women. "Oh, I'm very fond of the ladies," he retorted with a chuckle. On the south lawn of the White House he joshed with the President over the burning of the Executive Mansion by the British in 1814. Said Monty: "I'm really very sorry about it. I think we ought to pay for it. ... Or perhaps you might...
...More compelling, Pentagon lawyers could find no precedent of a U.S. serviceman's having been executed for murder or rape of a German or Japanese...
...with the 2nd Armored Division from start to finish, and recall a number of special orders posted describing the death sentence having been carried out for rape-murder! These orders came from Army command and I have no reason to doubt them. ... It seems to me the Pentagon lawyers can find no precedent in many things we took for granted...
...imprisonment at hard labor instead. The President acted on the strength of a review by the Judge Advocate General's office which found that: 1) the crime was unpremeditated; 2) Hicswa's mentality was sufficiently low to justify clemency; 3) the death sentence was excessive. More compelling, Pentagon lawyers could find no precedent of a U.S. serviceman's having been executed for the murder or rape of a German or Japanese...