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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Handed the OWI intra-bureau warfare (TIME, Feb. 7) right back to OWI. He told OWI Boss Elmer Davis and Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, head of OWI's Overseas Branch, to settle it themselves. The settlement this week: Bob Sherwood's three top men in New York-Newsman Joseph Barnes, Economist James Warburg, Editorial Chief Edd Johnson-resigned; Sherwood will go to London. This seemed a clean-out victory for Elmer Davis-his first in 20 months...
...Philadelphia there is a cautious carpenter named John G. Harl. He decided to get at his income-tax return well before March 15. So he worked & worked, and finally figured that his tax would be $40. Then he went to a branch office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and asked a clerk to check the return. No, said the clerk, after much figuring, the tax is $60.47. The careful carpenter then went to the main office, where another clerk figured: $222.38. Carpenter Harl was so alarmed that the clerk tried again, found a much happier answer. Now, said...
Three newspapermen gave him three more answers. Then the chief of the city's tax bureau made it $23.16. Philadelphia's collector of internal revenue agreed with the chief of the tax bureau. But both of them were shortly corrected by the Chief Income Tax Statistician of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in Washington. That statistician made it $4.05 more than the carpenter's original figure...
Pipe-smoking Harold Boeschenstein (pronounced Beshinstyne) last week sat behind an immaculate, paperless desk in Washington while about him swirled a paper-littered storm of questions, demands, complaints, pleadings and pressures. As acting director of WPB's Forest Products Bureau* he is the Government's unenvied Solomon, who has to decide who gets how much paper-and there is not enough paper to go around...
This interpretation is based upon the following directive received yesterday from the Bureau of Personnel: "All NROTC students who would normally complete NROTC training November 1 this year or earlier and who are physically qualified for general sea duty will be commissioned upon completion of the present term and ordered to active duty immediately...