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...Hurricane Roar, Free Land), mother of two Army sons, told why she had retreated to her Connecticut farm, given up writing for the duration-of the New Deal. Cried she: "I don't see why I should work to support the Writers' War Board, the OWI and all such New Deal piffle while men are dying and there is work to be done at home...
...Asked Congress for $64,390,000 to carry OWI through another fiscal year...
Follies oj 1932-44, one of the pariah paintings, showed Franklin Roosevelt, crowned and gaily tossing flat money in a ballet of smirking chorines labeled WPA, OWI, PWA, RFC. Painter of Follies of 1932-44 was Mrs. Mabel Meeker Edsall, art instructor at St. Louis' John Burroughs School. Four more of her paintings were also banned...
Most of the bright, personable U.S. propagandists in London were on OWI's payroll. CBS's restless William Paley, 43, his dog tag made by Cartier, bombarded Europe by radio. Litteratéur Lewis Galan-tiere plotted U.S. propaganda for France. Ace Hollywood Scenarist Robert Riskin (It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), intermittently in & out of London, Washington and Sicily since 1941, managed the OWI film division. Deep in publications & pamphlets: the Viking Press's wealthy president, Harold Guinz-burg, and wealthy George Backer (who was reported to be spending his idle hours translating...
...lkischer Beobachter has referred to OWI's overseas director "that delighted idiot...