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...suit and Panama hat, strutted into the White House one day last week for a 15-minute chat with Franklin Roosevelt on New York politics. The talk was so good that Mr. Smith overstayed his time by 30 minutes. In an anteroom Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and OWI's Elmer Davis cooled their heels until the political talk was over...
Armed with new authority to issue directives to all Government departments and agencies on news practices, OWI is responsible only to the President. How well it will function depends on Army & Navy cooperation. But an astute civilian with authority conceivably might get that cooperation...
...probable name: the Office of War Information (OWI). Its job: to supersede the information services of all the others, to act as an issuing office, frankly putting out the stories that the Government wants published...