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Down Went OWI. Congress finally gave OWI's domestic branch $2¾ million. (They had asked nearly $9 million.) No money was allowed for publications, posters, movies, field operations. Probably some 700 OWIsters would be fired; notice went out to close shop in twelve regional and 36 field offices, where OWI has coordinated all U.S. war information...
...bass-mouthed man in the neat blue suit was bewildered and nervous. Few men had ever taken a new Washington job under more awkward circumstances. He had become chief of OWI's domestic branch, succeeding Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., Des Moines publisher, just after the House of Representatives had torpedoed the bureau by withholding its funds. The Senate had not yet acted, but there was stormy weather ahead for OWI. Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt had a right to be nervous...
...accepted this appointment . . . be cause I am convinced that [the OWI domestic branch's] operations are absolutely vital. ...[I took this job] with the clear understanding that I would have full authority. . . . The domestic branch of OWI will devote all its energies to giving the American people . . . full and accurate information about the war. . . . This office will not be concerned with 'propagandizing...
...OWI's domestic branch, he went on, "has three major functions: 1) to obtain the release of the fullest possible news from the military fronts and on the military progress of the war; 2) to obtain and correlate the news of the operations of all the [Government] agencies concerned with the war; 3) to make all the news available to the public, as quickly and clearly as possible. . . ." These sounded exactly like the noble objectives OWI Director Elmer Davis had started out with...
Scholarly, balding, 42 -year-old Kenneth Norman Stewart's peripatetic newspaper career spans the continent and the period between two world wars (he is now with OWI, soon returns to New York City's PM). Working on many papers and on many big stories, he has seen the news paper profession change gradually under the impact of powerful influences: the Depression, the rise of the American Newspaper Guild, the invasion of city rooms by women, the development of news magazines, the counterpull of radio, the expansion of government information agencies. The change he believes most important...