Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oregonian Hoyt accepted last June was actually a receivership: he took over OWI's Domestic Branch at the very moment Congressional fury had broad-axed the agency, cutting its budget by 75%. Hoyt realized that OWI's strength is derived not from the size of its payroll but from the credit it has with public opinion. Instead of telling the newspapers, he invited them to tell...
...Hoyt's place came 38-year-old, Natchez-born George W. Healy, on a ten-months leave of absence from his job as managing editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The reserved Mr. Healy had no plans for any change in the Domestic Branch's inherited setup. When he returns next October to Louisiana, his predecessor may be well on his way back to Washington, though in another branch of government. For the State of Oregon will have to pick a new Senator...
Albert Spalding was busy canceling concerts so that he could introduce some doubtful notes into Fortress Europe. The Europe-wise violinist's "special" services (nonmusical) had been earmarked for spring use abroad by the Allied Forces' Psychological Warfare Branch...
...months that followed, however, recruiting began to slide. The Army upped the quota to 150,000; enrollment by last summer was less than half that. In the fall the WAACs became the WACs, and a full-fledged branch of the Army, with soldier's privileges of insurance, pensions, dependency allotments and overseas...
When the Japs struck Pearl Harbor, handsome Willis Manning Thomas had a staff job. More than anything else then he wanted to get into action in his branch of the service-the submarines. Tommy got his wish, became commanding officer of the submarine Pompano, on which he had served before as executive. Tommy said good-by to his wife and two daughters and was off across the Pacific to the hunting grounds around Japan...