Word: owis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wave. She was a minor celebrity when she came back to the U.S. in 1942 to champion the cause of the Chinese Nationalists. For a while she worked in Washington, covering the State Department for International News Service, switched to OWI and later to the New York Herald Tribune. But she was not happy away from China, and in 1946 she went back...
...preparation of its courses and tests. He later became a vice president of Stanford University, then came East to pull 29 scattered colleges together into the just-born State University of New York. Wilson, who couldn't leave questions alone, became a pollster. He directed wartime surveys for OWI and SHAEF, later joined Elmo Roper as a partner in International Public Opinion Research...
During World War II, round-faced Arthur S. Alberts of Yonkers, N.Y. went to West Africa as head of an OWI mission. He came back an enthusiastic amateur musicologist. The primitive native music-its complicated rhythms pounded out with hands or curved sticks on crudely made drums-made him think inevitably of the origins of jazz. He recorded some of it on ancient equipment for the Library of Congress, returned to the U.S. convinced that West African music deserved some better recording...
Acheson pointed out that many of State's loyalty problems traced back to 1945 and 1946, when State absorbed some 3,000 employees of the OWI and the OSS. The loyalty program had not yet been instituted, and since then, Acheson insisted, State had done a good job of weeding out "misfits." Said Acheson: "We are satisfied-as far as anyone can be in this imperfect world-that we have a good, clean, loyal and honest outfit...
...when Lattimore, as OWI chief in the Pacific, accompanied Henry Wallace to China, Jack Stachel, a top Communist functionary, "advised me to consider Owen Lattimore as a Communist. To me, that meant to treat as authoritative anything that he said...