Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John W. Murphy, Democratic member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee (which finished hearings last week after taking more than 8,500,000 words of testimony), as U.S. District Judge for middle Pennsylvania; 2) Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, Roosevelt brain-truster, former head of SEC and OCD, to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board. CJ Received from the Banking Committee a bill to raise the price of silver from 71? to $1.29 an ounce within two years...
Born. To Mayris Chancy Martin, 34, distaff side of the la-de-da Chancy & Fox dance team, Eleanor Roosevelt protégée whom Congress waltzed out of OCD in 1942; and Hershey Martin, 34, San Francisco orchestragent: their first child, a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: Anna Eleanor (for Mrs. R., godmother...
Myris Chaney, who caused a brief flurry of headlines in 1942 when she was taken up as a dancer by Eleanor Roosevelt and given an OCD job, was back in the news as a landlord. Now a milliner in San Francisco, she had solved her housing problem by buying an apartment building with her husband and moving in. Chaney & husband said they charged tenants the same old rent. OPA claimed an overcharge and sued for triple damages...
...Abolished the Office of Civilian Defense, by eliminating its $369,000 budget. About $34,000,000 worth of OCD equipment (gas masks, stirrup pumps, etc.) in 2,900 cities will be given to the Army or sold for surplus property...
...amateur air spotters. The Office of Civilian Defense had been without a boss since James M. Landis went off to boss U.S. economics in the Middle East (TIME Aug. 16). Many an air-raid warden was beginning to lose that first fine passion for his helmet and whistle. But OCD, with a $4 million budget and 850 employes, urged every man to keep on his toes. There might still be need, said OCD, for all the equipment it had delivered or requisitioned: 4,419,450 arm bands, 2,700,000 helmets, 5,000,000 gas masks, 100,000 firemen...