Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-topped Elmer Davis, the newsman with the reassuringly deadpan, mid-western voice, had held his job a month, but so little had been heard from him that correspondents had begun to cry, "Where's Elmer?" Last week they knew where he was: on the spot-put there prematurely...
More than that, newsmen learned that Elmer Davis, who had survived three years of Oxford without losing a trace of his Hoosier accent, had been perceptibly affected by a month in Washington. As he put it, his outlook on Army and Navy news had changed since crossing "to the other...
In short, even-tempered Elmer Davis had decided that he had a new boss: he was no longer working directly for the U.S. people but for the U.S. Government. He was not going to exert the authority which he had (under the Executive Order which created his job) to make...
Standing on his own two feet Davis also told the newsmen for 50 minutes, in terms as simple as his news broadcasts used to be, what he had done to bring some order into the nation's madhouse of official war information.
To carry out OWI's job of clearing and coordinating official war information, Director Davis set up a working organization, with the help of a crack Washington administrator, Milton Stover Eisenhower (brother of the U.S. Army Commander in the European theater of war).