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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott Perkins, head of the University's War Service Information Bureau, announced yesterday that the Harvard quota for the Army Enlisted Reserve was strictly limited, and that students intending to enlist should not delay in filling out their applications...
...July 22 "Propaganda and Rumors" will be the topic of a talk by Robert H. Knapp, Director of the Propaganda Research Bureau of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, and the last lecture on July 29 will describe methods of paying for the war, with emphasis on the government's campaign to sell Savings Bonds and Stamps. The War Service Committee is planning a second series of talks for the second Summer School session...
Army Needed. By then Policeman Henderson will need a super-colossal army of price police. Originally estimated at 90,000, a number high enough to frighten all retailers, its size has already been cut by the Budget Bureau to 60,000. Of this, said OPA, only about 15,000 will be price cops, the rest clerks. This will set only one price cop to watch every 1,500 stores. Last week it seemed that Congress might whittle the force some more. Congressmen were angry and disappointed because Leon Henderson had failed to "consult" them on appointments. Regional and State administrators...
...President had delayed for months before picking a man to head a new super-press bureau: the Office of War Information. Last week he finally summoned 52-year-old Elmer Davis to the White House, told him without fuss & feathers that he had been drafted for the job. Calm Mr. Davis, who dislikes fuss & feathers, took the President's order calmly. Two days later he made his last news broadcast. Two days after that he went to work in Washington...
...only do the U.S. Army and Navy give courses on camouflage, but the Office of Civilian Defense has established a camouflage bureau, and a number of educational institutionsצf which New York's Pratt Institute rates high with the Army—are lending a hand in spreading the gospel. In the latter organizations, many architectural students are learning ways of putting into their architectural designs refinements that permit quick, complete camouflage as necessity arises. For term exercises, students this year made models of hypothetical objectives, disguised them with the latest structural camouflage techniques...