Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Brazil would establish a branch of her national bank at La Paz, and both countries would declare a mutual frontier area where both their currencies might circulate...
...Relations with politicians, airline heads and people who want something are the forte of fast-minded, diplomatic Harllee Branch, 63, a onetime Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Journal, who worked with Jim Farley in the 1932 campaign, later became Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail...
...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...
...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...