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...report that the horses stabled near the Stadium are soon to be "liquidated has engendered a good deal of anticipation and watchfulness on the part of the Cowie gastronomes. Perhaps current OWI publicity will break down their traditional resistance to Dobbin as a victual. It's significant to note, however, that the Provisions course does not indicate the quantity of hoss meat to be stowed for an indefinite cruise, for 100 men, implying that this commodity still lacks official Navy sanction...
Postmaster General. Of Frank Walker an assistant reported: "He is wrestling mightily with postal problems." Attorney General. Francis Biddle wrote the preface for an OWI pamphlet to be dropped over Norway, composed a speech...
Emphasizing the fact that the "Ideological war" is the battle that really needs winning, Edgar A. Mowrer, famed war correspondent and former assistant chief of the OWI, spoke at a meeting sponsored by the Harvard and Radcliffe Councils on Post-War Problems and the Harvard Liberal Union last Friday afternoon in the Kirkland House Senior Common Room...
...some reason the OWI's Chicago office had decided to ban all news photographers from the hall in which Mme. Chiang spoke. Instead OWI promised to send a Government photographer and to distribute his pictures to all papers...
...when the papers called around for their pictures, an embarrassed OWI spokesman stammered something about "mechanical difficulties," finally admitted that its man had been so excited at seeing China's famed First Lady that he had forgotten to open his camera's shutter. The Chicago Times published a one-column square in solid black, gloatingly labeled it: "OWI Photo...