Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davis took over all these agency chiefs except Donovan, who moved into the Army's mysterious Office of Strategic Services (known irreverently in Washington as "the cloak & dagger boys"). He took over some 3,000 employes, scores of jealousies and quarrels, innumerable unsolved problems of policy and procedure. One...
Lopping the Heads. Davis, an amateur administrator, left administration to his assistants: Associate Director Milton S. Eisenhower, longtime Government career man and brother of General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Gardner Cowles Jr., onetime president of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, now head of OWI's domestic branch; gangling Robert Sherwood...
As head of this organization Davis' main concern-and job-is to connect OWI with the White House, and with the people. Actually he does nothing much in particular, either way, and this is not necessarily his fault. For, speaking largely, no one has conclusively proved that OWI has...
Davis at Work. OWI's front man, still solid and sensible, has kept his old habit and attitudes. He had trouble getting used to a secretary, often typed out his own letters in the uneven, x'ed out style that is the mark of a working newsman. One...
With his white-haired wife, Davis lives in a small apartment filled with bulging bookcases, a big typewriter desk, a battered, slipcovered easy chair. For relaxation he still plays bridge, with Russian Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Publisher Eugene Meyer of the Washington Post, Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones. (Meyer and Jones, bitter...