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...quietly did Colonel Donovan take over these duties last week that even his mail could not find him. Wayne Coy, one of Franklin Roosevelt's special assistants with "a passion for anonymity"-and at present, as executive secretary of OEM, the President's No. 1 trouble shooter-gave up a suite of offices in the State Department Building so that Wild Bill Donovan could move in. Then a mail carrier turned up at the entrance desk with a registered letter for Colonel Donovan. "Donovan?" said the watchman. "I don't know of any Donovan." The letter went...
With more jobs as slick as Carlu's, OEM's poster outfit may become a central art bureau working for all defense agencies. Besides the OPM assignment, it is doing jobs for the Agriculture and Interior Departments and the Civil Service Commission. Proud of its products, it pays artists $250 for big color posters. Trade fee for such work would...
...Office for Emergency Management (an alias for two men, Franklin Roosevelt and his "anonymous" assistant, William H. McReynolds) became the superbody of defense administration. Immediately under it is the Hopkins group, plus the War Cabinet. OEM's physical workshop was the Knudsen-Hillman OPM. The defense program's setup had been reshuffled once more-and, the U.S. hoped, for the last time. Something more than promises must be given Great Britain-and soon. Yet OPM's William Knudsen blandly told the Senate committee investigating defense: "I don't know [whether we could supply the whole world...