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...Eisenhower, thrice-honored in Europe (see Heroes), sent his positive opinions on peacetime military training and the usefulness of OWI. This week he would have a triumphal homecoming...
...after the arrests, Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover told a little of what it was all about. For 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...
Died. Tom C. Geraghty, 62, veteran scenarist and ex-head of the OWI's Holly wood bureau; in Hollywood. Connected with many a foreign film, he once did a historical picture for Mussolini, was paid off one-fifth in cash, four-fifths in olive...
TIME May 21st International refers to PWD as "OWI's Psychological Warfare Division." Does TIME not yet know that PWD is a division of Supreme Headquarters just like G1, G2, etc; that it is answerable to General Eisenhower and not to OWI; that it is an Anglo-American organization like all other divisions and sections of Supreme Headquarters; . . . that it is a unique organization in this or any other war, being mixed "British-American, civilian-military, operating at all echelons, from the Chief of Staff's desk to the platoon commander's foxhole; that TIME...
Quandary for Quinn. Fibber broods about such complaints. Quinn laughs them off. He does not even mind driving 30 miles into Hollywood three days a week to work free for OWI. One night after a Fibber & Molly show about gasoline rationing, Quinn got home to find himself in a quandary: there was a telegram from William Jeffers, then national rubber director, complimenting him on the program; there was also a letter from his ration board, denying him supplemental gasoline...