War Agencies Praised and Criticized in 1943 Budget Review
The 1943 omnibus appropriations bill for 18 war agencies including the Office of Price Administration and the War Production Board was scrutinized by the House Appropriations Committee. It praised some efforts while criticizing staff expansion and pricing controls, noting savings from price control and warnings of shortages, with debates over expertise and pay in wartime agencies.
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Linglon
Production Board
Ice of War Information
Or Shipping Administration
Severs
House Appropriations Committee
Ralph EK. Davies
Atlantic
George W. Taylor
WLB
CPA
Clef Brown
Tt & Jor Hha
Givillan Defense
James A. Landis
United States
Pacific
Budget Bureau
Taber
New York
Ditter
Pennsylvania
Board of Economic Warfare
Office of Price Administration
Taher
OPA
Embloyes
Perkin
Perkins
Subcommittee Hearings Cite Subsidy Opposition and Synthetic Rubber Outlook
Congressional opposition to subsidies to curb living costs is evident as the PA chief urges prices to return to September 1902 levels without subsidy use. Rubber Director Jeffers reports synthetic rubber plants could begin operation by year end, targeting about 800,000 long tons of output, with production rising to meet normal demand. The record highlights BEW efforts and UN matters amid global economic strain as hearings stress wartime and postwar programs.
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Agexctes
Archon Sis
Jena
Bel Ted
Tosh Mie
Ion
Ittee
OPA
Nelson i
Tam
Brown
Cjralaanannon
D-Mo
Jeffers
Hei
Cannan
British to See Typical Yanks in U S Mission Revealed
Testimony by Robert Sherwood, director of the Wartime Information Program overseas branch, outlined a plan to send typical Americans to Britain to counter misconceptions. Invitees include university leaders, business figures, authors, and educators such as Clarence Dykstra, Eric Johnston, Mark Starr, Joseph Grew, and Margaret Mead, with approvals pending from the board of war information and the British ministry of information.
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Iapland
OWL
United States
Robert Sherwood
WOT
House
Sherwood
Owfs
London
Frederick Redefer
Progressive Education Association
England
Frank J. Lausche
Smiagor
Cleveland
Lausche
Clarence Dykstra
University of Wisconsin
Eric Johnston
Mark Starr
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Joseph
Grew
Japan
Eleanors Wilson McAdoo
Treasury
War Savings
Betty Gram Swing
Robert Lyndh
Ministry of Information
Henry Stele Cammager
Histery
Columbia Univeran
Iphigene Molony Bettman
Ohio League At Women Voters
Worth McClure
Two Scions Criticize Elmer Davis
Two members of Congress assailed Elmer Davis head of the Office of War Information. Senator Bridges accused him of seeking to be a propaganda minister and urged a full investigation of OWI policy. Representative Short said Davis aimed to become a national propaganda chief. House and Davis defended wartime publicity as essential.
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Washington
Congress
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Beston
Davis
Benator Bridges
F.n. H
Senate
New Deal
Bridges
American Newspaper Guild
OWT
Representative Short
House
Meshwhile
OWI
Majority
Teader McCormack
D.-Mass
Wat
Radio Talks to Italy Increased Sparks Allied Effort
A fragmentary World War II era dispatch reports growth in radio broadcasts from Allied nations to Italy. It describes broadcasts urging Italians to overthrow Mussolini and join the Allied cause, urging active resistance and collaboration with Allied forces to win freedom.
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Italy
Invasion Propaganda Plans Revealed by OWI
Washington officials disclosed that the Office of War Information is secretly building a global propaganda network to support possible invasion moves next year. Director Elmer Davis testified that OWI operates a News Bureau that feeds 3000 newspapers in 39 countries with 2792 staff via 30 outposts. The appropriations committee reduced the requested contingency fund for covert operations from 10 million to 5 million.
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Washington
Office of War, Information
Elmer Davis
House Appropriations ,Committee
North Africa
OWL
Davis
British Troop Diseases Report From Axis Fronts
The British Broadcasting Company broadcast from London claims Axis troops in Europe and Asia are afflicted by mysterious diseases. It cites a bacillus causing intestinal decay in troops in the Ukraine and another fever affecting soldiers in south Russia. Officials like George Denny and universities are named in the report.
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London
British Broadcasting Company
Axis
Europe
Seattle
Jorge
Slaying Trial Opens for Massachusetts Youth
Massachusetts youngest defendant Edward Dow, 18, goes on trial for the hammer slaying of 73 year old Lydia Gook in her home. The state plans to call 16 witnesses to counter the alleged confession amid the looming death penalty debate.
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Mass
Tyne
Massachusetts
Ces
Edward Dow
Lydia Gook
Massachugatts
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