Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were still scrapping among themselves over wartime functions and peacetime appropriations. To end the bickering and to clank some brass hats together, President Truman last week sent for General Ike Eisenhower. Since early December Ike had been a part-time troubleshooter, occupying on occasion an unpretentious suite in the Pentagon. Now he would take a full leave from Columbia University for seven or eight weeks...
...Soldier George Marshall came back to Washington after three weeks of convalescence from a kidney operation, was about ready to get on with his new job: chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. His predecessor: the late John J. Pershing. His new offices: the Pentagon suite which Black Jack never...
Almost any night last week a small, trim man with a boxer's nose could be seen letting himself out of an office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy with homework. James Forrestal had served his country conscientiously for eight years-as an anonymous assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, as Secretary of the Navy, and finally as Secretary of National Defense. His face showed no expression but a kind of habitual pugnacity. In no way did he betray the fact that he had been marked as the victim...
...sprawls out in 23 departments, 104 bureaus, 460 offices, 631 divisions, 40 boards. Over the globe it owns more than 5,000 buildings (139 in Washington alone) and more than 1,000,000 motor vehicles, worth about $2 billion. Its records would fill six buildings the size of the Pentagon. Overlapping and duplication of effort abound. Example: a Columbia River salmon, swimming upstream to spawn, comes under the jurisdiction of twelve different federal agencies concerned with fish and wildlife...
...Pentagon, he quizzed Chief of Staff Omar Bradley about a caustic letter from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (an Army source informed Pearson) complaining about the Army's "slipshod" training program. ("As a result," said Pearson, "Bradley has called in four 'top-ranking generals and raised hell.") Over lunch at the Mayflower hotel, War Crimes Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan, just back from Tokyo, fed Pearson an "inside" story that Emperor Hirohito wants a military alliance with the U.S. An anonymous telephone call brought a chance to throw a dart at a favorite target, Senator Owen Brewster, for taking free...