Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Office of Government Reports (OGR); the Office of Government Films (OGF); the Office of the Coordinator of Information (OCI), the Army & Navy press sections, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA), and the White House's own Executive Office. The Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) is building a large press bureau...
...majors, lieutenants with no advice from the military. In Mound City, Mo., Legionnaires were training with bow & arrow. In Omaha, stylish horsemen set themselves up as "Paul Reveres." In Louisville, Ky., the Legionnaires started to conduct a city-wide registration in competition with local authorities, were sat on by OCD...
...apathy was the word for what ailed him, the apathy of the U.S. male toward defense was based on his feeling that, if the U.S. wanted him, it could call him. Supplementing this feeling was the conviction among many men that OCD was hopelessly confused, most of its enterprises silly. Perhaps the Legion, with its training program, would end all that...
...over the U.S. next week more than half a million teen-age youngsters will go to work with jig and band saws on 500,000 model planes. Not toys-these will be planes for the Army, Navy and OCD. The model-planes program is to provide gunners and spotters with accurate miniatures of 20 types of planes, including U.S.Japanese, German, Italian and British. The Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics and the Office of Education are joint sponsors of the idea...
Admittedly, the OCD--like other defense agencies--contains defects which it is the duty of the press to expose. But this expose should be engineered with a constructive purpose in view--the ultimate strengthening of America's war effort. Propagating rumors about what Eleanor privately thinks of William Knudsen not only loses sight of this objective, but actively weakens defense and upsets morale. The shortcomings of OCD and the defense program in general are only intensified by scandal-mongering, where they could be alleviated by specific editorial suggestion. Apparently, the press need be reminded that there are more important ends...