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...gave OCDirector James M. Landis a fine lump on the head, by reading aloud a passage from an OCD order calling for the blackout of Government buildings: "Such preparations shall be made as will completely obscure all Federal buildings and nonFederal buildings occupied by the Federal Government during an air-raid for any period of time from visibility by reason of internal or external illumination. Such obscuration may be obtained either by blackout construction or by termination of the illumination...
...Buck Byrd rides again," cracked Washington newshawks. Down the warpath, sure enough, padded Economizer Harry Byrd of Virginia, his apple cheeks stained winesap-red with indignation. He was still after the scalp of OCD; and he was hot on the trail. He had discovered that OCD had still stranger captives in its tepee than Dancer Mayris Chancy (resigned...
...Smug, Slothful, Asleep?) brought an outburst of letters from the people themselves. Many letters-to-TIME have reflected indignation over such issues as the Roberts report on Pearl Harbor, the retirement applications of Admiral Kimmel and General Short, the Lafayette (ex-Normandie) fire, pensions for Congressmen, Mrs. Roosevelt and OCD. But the latest batch -more than 100 of them- went much deeper. Some excerpts...
...kind lady gave the U.S. a lesson in good manners last week. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from OCD. Said she: "By remaining I would only make it possible for those who wish to attack me, because of my beliefs, to attack an agency which I consider can prove its usefulness so completely to the people, that it should be free of attack, in order to render its maximum service." Also out of OCD went Dancer Mayris Chancy, Mrs. Roosevelt's beleaguered proteg...
Industry crowded Washington with outstretched hands, begging for juicy contracts; labor leadels talked their heads off trying to organize every new plant in sight; Congress voted itself a fat bonus; Mrs. Roosevelt was handing out OCD jobs to her entertaining friends; Harvard undergraduates were kicking because they didn't get enough milk to drink; students of draft age were trying to move heaven and earth to escape the draft, come out with a commission, get a degree, or a combination of the three. That was the news of last week--and of all the weeks before, going right back...