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...OWI's report last week that U.S. merchant-marine casualties in one year of war had reached 3,200 or 3.8% of the crews* underlined the gravity of the U-boat campaign-a campaign which may yet stalemate the war and will certainly delay final Allied victory...
These hard-hitting words sent Washington into a dither. Apprehensive OWI Director Elmer Davis reminded Bill Jeffers that his "speech" had not been cleared by OWI. The Rubber Director snorted that he had not made a "speech," then added, "I will speak my mind...
Said the Louisville Courier-Journal's former Washington correspondent Ulric Bell (now with OWI): "We thought John definitely anti-British. . . ." Kenneth Crawford, Washington reporter for PM, said he had concluded from remarks he had heard O'Donnell make that O'Donnell thought Hitler's oppression of the Jews justified...
Slender, young, handsome Marine Captain Horace W. Fuller of Milton, Mass., more recently of Guadalcanal, knew what he wanted. His voice shook as he told it to OWI's Overseas Branch in Manhattan. He was on his own, without official backing, but would OWI please do something for the men out there? They were lonely and very tired. The mail was not getting through as fast as it might. Could they be reached direct...
Married. Jerome Weidman, 29, novelist (I Can Get It for You Wholesale), short story writer (The Horse That Could Whistle "Dixie"), OWI pamphleteer; and Peggy Wright, 29, New York newspaperwoman; in Manhattan...