Word: oss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some time, they said, documents labeled "restricted" and "top secret" had been disappearing from the State Department and other Government agencies-War, Navy, OWI, the Federal Communications Commission, and the supersecret Office of Strategic Services. Material from some of the documents had appeared in Amerasia (which had used one OSS report verbatim) and in Free-Lance Gayn's articles in Col lier's and the Saturday Evening Post. Some of the documents, said J. Edgar Hoover, had been found in the possession of those arrested...
Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson will have three top assistants: Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, head of the cloak-&-dagger OSS; U.S. Assistant Attorney General Francis M. Shea; and railway attorney Sidney S. Alderman. They have...
...after the Reader's Digest reached the newsstands, Barmine received a registered letter at home informing him that he had been discharged by OSS. The reason: "continued absences." Last week, Barmine termed this "completely false and preposterous." Less than a month ago, he said, he had been commended for his work. And last April, when he had tried to resign because of ill health, his resignation was turned down. He was given a pay raise along with permission for brief absences for treatment. Since then, OSS admitted, Barmine has not been absent oftener than any other employe. But OSS...
...along the Atlantic seaboard from New Hampshire to North Carolina have entered 91 contestants whose combined ability constitutes one of the strongest fields in several years. Of all the championship marks see in the past, only one--the 2:51.9 medley relay effort of Vande Weghe, Hough and Van Oss of Princeton--seems beyond the reach of the current crop of mermen. Any of the others may conceivably go by the boards...