Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He praised the U.S. press for not jump ing the gun, then to War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox, OWI Boss Elmer Davis be said: Hereafter no war information "having a security value" shall be issued in advance, on a hold-for-i'elease basis; such news will be...
Speakers for the evening were as follows: Robert Rankin, Simmons College, Chairman; Warren S. Tryon, Simmons College; Veit Valentin, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Saville Davis, Christian Science Monitor. Such forums are held under the auspices of the Harvard College Observatory.
Reuters, the British news agency, was deeper in the black books of the U.S. press than it had ever been before. And that was saying something. OWI's Elmer Davis was madder than he had ever been, but apparently just as helpless.
"You Did!" ... "I Didn't!" This sort of thing had happened before, and OWI, expressly created to keep the U.S. informed as rapidly as possible about war developments, had often promised that it would not happen again. The U.S. press went after Elmer Davis. Red-faced with shame and...
Yale also Sonny broke bones and beat drums. He played football, was on the third varsity crew. He was theater critic for the Yale News. As "The Meyer Davis of Yale," he organized some five dance bands, one of which he took on 22 Atlantic crossings. One night he heard...