Word: oem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dewey also took time to trace, in considerable detail, the long record of Administration bungling in setting up and tearing down defense agencies, from WRB through OEM and NDAC down to OPM and SPAB and finally WPB, which only a month ago "fell apart . . . and the head of the board was given a ticket to China...
Standing a bare three feet away from the red, the Harvard Film Society goes into New Lecture Hall at eight o'clock again tonight on its accelerated program. The pictures are Dostoyevaski's "Crime and Punishment" and "Tanks." the famous OEM documentary of the production war. The Society is showing Pierre Blauchard's French version of a Russian novel not for its snob appeal, the Executive Committee states, but "because students want to see good pictures, as they have during the Society's six-year existence...
...group of five technicians, captained by Francis D. Lyons, a past associate of many motion picture companies in America and England, was sent out by the OEM Film Division...
...beginning was FDR. People all over the nation got to know those initials. Then came the begats. FDR begat NRA, FERA, CWA, AAA, WPA and PWA. Some begats, like NRA, died without issue, others begat more. OEM (Office for Emergency Management) was the first war bureau. Then NDAC (National Defense Advisory Commission) begat SPAB (Supply, Priorities and Allocations Board), which begat WPB (War Production Board...
...Amazing Executive." With OEM's Wayne Coy holding the dustpan, Judge Rosenman went to work with his broom. In spite of the gestures of hydra-handed Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones (among many other things, administrator of housing loans), the Judge swept up the 16 Federal agencies. Mr. Roosevelt announced last week that the mess was cleaned...