Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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President Roosevelt flung the Little Flower into OCD last spring. Mr. LaGuardia set up regional councils, which did their best to start State and local councils. All were volunteer groups. About all OCD could do was provide blueprints and fatherly advice...
...Prolonged Study." Most apathetic spot in the country was the territory served by isolationist Chicago Tribune, where the Tribune's editorials and Charles Augustus Lindbergh's shrill "they can't touch us" had all but drowned out OCD's weak little toot. Last week the Midwest had just begun to yawn and stretch. In Wisconsin it was announced that plans for civilian defense were going to be given "prolonged study." St. Louis declared that it would get around this week to enrolling some 50,000 volunteers which it figured it might need...
...Along the East Coast, where confusion was as thick as anywhere, a horrible example was Mayor LaGuardia's own New York City. City Hall, where the Little Flower was trying to be mayor of the nation's biggest city while he was also heading OCD, was in an uproar. Workmen piled into the mayor's offices, tore up floors, laid wires, erected parti tions. Women in blue-grey uniforms, brass buttons and gold epaulets snapped salutes at one another and the mayor, twinkled off in all directions with Mr. LaGuardia's orders...
Advice was obscure and contradictory. Skyscraper dwellers were no sooner given the comfortable assurance that they were safe within steel and concrete walls so long as they stayed on floors four down from the top or four up from the bottom than Harry M. Prince, OCD consultant, declared that 98½% of New York City's buildings would be unsafe, that no building was "bomb-proof." School authorities were first advised to send children home at the first warning of a raid, later told to keep pupils in school, off the streets...
...should stop confusing everyone by being a minor official in her husband's Government. Mr. LaGuardia "should resign as soon as his successor can be found and installed in the office." Indications were that Mr. Roosevelt thought so too, was getting ready to pluck the Little Flower from OCD...