Word: oci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio businessmen, the broadcasters had been haunted all along by a spectre of the Government "taking over" radio. This made them touchy. As short-wave professionals, they had been skeptical of the quality of material sent to them by OCI and OCIAA. In some cases their skepticism was justified. OCI, in particular, made propaganda mistakes. There were failures of coordination. There was a general failure to hold fast to the essential work in hand, which...
...thoughtful professional said last week: "OCI will not get it out of their heads that there is no such thing as 'Europe,' but rather specific Europeans. And the company executives, interested in company prestige, have never really believed they have an audience, never really believed they have an enemy...
Last week a plan was submitted to the Director of the Budget for the short-wave time and facilities of all U.S. companies to be "leased" by the Government for the duration. Whatever else this might mean, it would certainly carry with it real and responsible program authority for OCI and OCIAA. Would short-wave propaganda then take a kicking around from shortsighted, over-zealous appointees? Or would the best brains of companies and Government get together for a wise and unified short-wave program...
...press sections of the regular Departments and agencies were the big new ones. In the OEM press section were about 400 people. Others: the Office of Censorship (OC); the 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...
...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "OFF will coordinate the Office of Coordinator of Information (or OCI), report on the Office of Government Reports (the frequent reference to this as OGRE is just a typographical error), press-agent the innumerable Press Agents of the Individual Departments (often called the PAIDS) and will under no circumstances do anything whatever that anybody else is doing already. . . . When the Office of Utter Confusion and Hysteria (to be referred to as OUCH) has finally been created, then the capstone will have been set upon the pyramid and we can all die happy, strangled...