Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief Gutheim pointed out that the Auxiliary Fire Department had lost many valuable men to the Armed Forces. Stating that it would take 1000 men to adequately man the Cambridge Department, he expressed his hope that all those who were able would join this important branch of Civilian Defense. Gutheim said that he had complete confidence in the fire-fighting ability of the Auxiliaries...
...ordeal of Robert Sherwood began last week. The tall, thin, solemn playwright (Reunion in Vienna, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, etc.) made his first request to Congress for money ($26,000,000) to carry on the foreign propaganda work of his Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information. Members of the House appropriations subcommittee wanted to know what had been accomplished with the money (from the President's emergency fund) he had spent...
Before Pearl Harbor Sherwood began to assemble his branch under the auspices of the Coordinator of Information, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Dorfovan. Last June the organization was transferred in toto to Elmer Davis' OWI. Now swollen to 1,800 employes, it has a high command in Washington, a sprawling operations unit in Manhattan, another in San Francisco and 18 outposts throughout the world. Its province is all the world outside of the continental U.S. and Latin America...
...branches of the Overseas Outpost Bureau (chief: Harold K. Guinzburg, owner of Viking Press) are the eyes, ears and distributing agents for the Overseas Branch. Most of them are just getting into operation. The branch chiefs are mostly ex-foreign correspondents like Wallace Carroll (London), former head of the U.P.'s London bureau; a couple of ex-drama critics like the New York Herald-Tribune's Richard Watts Jr. (Dublin) and Gilbert Gabriel (Anchorage) of Hearst's defunct New York American; ex-admen like J. Walter Thompson's M. L. Stiver (Canberra...
...Line. Handicapped by the absence of resounding victories, by the lack of a definite Government policy, OWI's Overseas Branch has concentrated on telling the simple truth...