Word: mellett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four-Headed Monster. The Office of War Information that Elmer took over was the dizziest of all Washington holding companies. It was a merger of four agencies which had been getting on everybody's nerves: Archibald MacLeish's Office of Facts & Figures, Lowell Mellett's Office of Government Reports, Robert Horton's information service for the Office of Emergency Management, part of Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan's Office of Coordinator of Information...
...President abolished in one sweeping stroke a galaxy of conflicting agencies: the Office of Facts and Figures (Archibald MacLeish), the Office of Government Reports (Lowell Mellett), the division of information of the Office of Emergency Management (Robert Horton), the Office of the Coordinator of Information ("Wild Bill" Donovan). Donovan's agency was reorganized, its name changed to the Office of Strategic Services, and it was put under the general staffs of the Army & Navy...
...training films for the armed forces, an occasional hammy patriotic picture of its own, tried its hand at box-office propaganda and got smeared by U.S. Senate isolationists for its pains. After Pearl Harbor, Hollywood pleaded with Franklin Roosevelt's Government Films Coordinator, white-haired, volcanically patient Lowell Mellett, for an important assignment...
Last week, four months later, Hollywood at last got its marching orders. They called for little more than a short hike. For Government account, the industry will make 26 shorts on war subjects provided by Mellett. Having set a man to do a boy's work, Mellett returned to Washington...
...celluloid front, the U.S. still has no pattern except that which Mellett will provide when he gets around to it. Hollywood's and the Government's few war documentaries have been a hodgepodge of patriotic appeals, expositions on tank construction, sugar-coated shots of training troops, etc. These films have failed to keep the U.S. public informed on the progress of the war, to tell it why tires have to be rationed, to relate the vast complexity of global war to the individual citizen...