Word: oem
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...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...