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...wartime officials, came pots of trouble. His ears had scarcely finished burning from attacks on the expense and political tone of Victory, the de luxe glamor magazine designed to sell the U.S. to the world as a kind of Hollywood 3,000 miles square, when his sprawling OWI issued a cartoon booklet on the life of President Roosevelt, also designed for distribution abroad. A U.S. soldier sent a copy to New York's Republican Congressman John Taber. Mr. Taber, who has a low irritation point, was moved to cry: "Purely political propaganda, designed entirely to promote a fourth term...
Last week onetime Chicago Daily News Paris Correspondent Edgar Ansel Mowrer, who had just resigned as Deputy Director of OWI after a row with the State Department over North African policy, offered his explanation. Said...
...plethora of possible solutions, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt contributed another. Her suggestion: send foremen and small groups of workers to the fighting fronts; let them bring back eyewitness accounts to their fellow workers. While the roll of "not present" at war posts grew steadily longer, OWI, WMC and five other war agencies conducted overlapping studies of the cause and cure...
Last week the gale broke in a whistling fury, beat around the doors of the White House, whipped in & out of WPB, OWI, OPA and many another Federal agency, chilled the neck of every power-wielding office holder. Prominent Democrats rode the crest of it, outdoing Republicans in bureau-baiting and defiance of Government-by-executive-edict...
...haired Senator Harry Byrd's Joint Economy Committee swung a haymaker at Government "quiz mania," counted 7,025 separate questionnaires and reports sent out by Federal agencies in 18 months. Day before, Byrd had warmed up in a ruckus over OWI's new magazine Victory. He promised investigation of all "Government propaganda ventures...