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Office of War Information (OWI), U.S. agency created (1942) during World War II to consolidate government information services. The OWI absorbed the functions of the Office of Facts and Figures, the Office of Government Reports, the division of information of the Office for Emergency Management, and the foreign information service of the Coordinator of Information. Elmer Davis Davis, Elmer, 1890–1958, American newspaperman, radio commentator, and author, b. Aurora, Ind. Davis was a Rhodes scholar (1910–13) at Oxford. For 10 years (1914–24) he was on the staff of the New York Times. ..... Click the link for more information. was named director. Besides coordinating the release of war news for domestic use, the office established an overseas branch, under Robert E. Sherwood Sherwood, Robert Emmet, 1896–1955, American dramatist, b. New Rochelle, N.Y., grad. Harvard, 1918. After serving in World War I, he wrote for Vanity Fair and Life, serving as editor of the latter from 1924 to 1928. ..... Click the link for more information. , which launched a huge information and propaganda campaign abroad. Congressional opposition to the domestic operations of the OWI resulted in increasingly curtailed funds, and by 1944 the OWI operated mostly in the foreign field, contributing to undermining enemy morale. The agency was abolished in 1945, and its foreign functions were transferred to the Dept. of State. BibliographySee W. Carroll, Persuade or Perish (1948). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Lend-Lease program, and during World War II served as an editor at the Office of War Information in Cairo. He worked for the Office of War Information at the start of World War II, then moved to Los Angeles in 1943, where he launched his career as a comedy writer. His best known poster was "FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT AFTER THE WAR--REGISTER/VOTE," an idea that was rejected earlier by the Office of War Information because it "didn't mean anything. |
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