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The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency created during World War II. The OWI operated from June 1942 until September 1945. Through radio broadcasts, newspapers, posters, photographs, films and other forms of media, the OWI was the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities.
May 18, 1958 (aged 68) Washington, D.C., US. Occupation (s) journalist, Director, Office of War Information, World War II. Spouse. Florence MacMillan. Elmer Holmes Davis (January 13, 1890 – May 18, 1958) was an American news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award ...
G. Lewis Galantière. Hazel Gaudet-Erskine. Ralph J. Gleason. William Golden (graphic designer) Beate Sirota Gordon. Julien Green. Stanton Griffis. John Gutmann.
The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States. It succeeded the Resettlement Administration (1935–1937). [1] The FSA is famous for its small but highly influential photography program, 1935–1944, that portrayed the challenges of rural ...
The Office of War Information (OWI) Bureau of Graphics was the government agency in charge of producing and distributing propaganda posters. [16] The main distinction between United States poster propaganda and that of British and other allied propaganda was that the U.S. posters stayed mostly positive in their messages. [16]
The secretary of war was the head of the War Department. At first, he was responsible for all military affairs, including naval affairs. In 1798, the secretary of the Navy was created by statute, and the scope of responsibility for this office was reduced to the affairs of the United States Army.
Summary. Establishes the War Relocation Authority. Executive Order 9102 is a United States presidential executive order creating the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the US civilian agency responsible for the forced relocation and internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The executive order was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt ...
The younger Hoyt served with the Office of War Information during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. In 1945 and 1946, he served as a foreign correspondent for The Denver Post (of which his father became editor and publisher in 1946) [ 3 ] and the United Press , reporting from locations in China , Thailand , Burma , India , the Middle East ...