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Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of the newsmen in OWI busy press room grab for a handout giving point values on canned goods from George (fatso) McMillan, assistant chief of the news bureau. McMillan has tried to make the news bureau work like a newspaper, has a reputation for understanding the newsman's side of government information

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Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

Leaders in drive to reduce death toll by motor vehicle accidents. Washington, D.C., Aug. 21. To reduce the death toll from motor accidents by adopting uniform traffic regulations throughout the United States was the object of the subcommittee of the Accident Prevention Conference meeting today at the Department of Commerce. Secretary of Commerce Daniel A. Roper, (right) who addressed the meeting today is shown with Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, Massachusetts, whose bill for an appropriation of $50,000 for, a national safety and prevention program, was passed by the last Congress; and Rep. Emmot O'Neal, of Kentucky

Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.

[Calvin Coolidge looking at rug outside White House, Washington, D.C.]

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Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of the newsmen in OWI busy press room grab for a handout giving point values on canned goods from George (fatso) McMillan, assistant chief of the news bureau. McMillan has tried to make the news bureau work like a newspaper, has a reputation for understanding the newsman's side of government information

Office of War Information News Bureau. George McMillan, assistant chief of the OWI news bureau, talks over a program for a series of releases on inflation with Herb Plummer, standing at his right, Jack Durham and Joe Polakoff. When a series of releases is planned, the news bureau schedules them, often including plans for releases for rural papers, trade papers, house organs, etc., as well as the daily press

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, talks over a news release with Sutherland Denlinger. The chief of the general news desk keep an eye on all the news that goes out of the news bureau to the seventy- five correspondents in the Office of War Information's Washington press room, to all specialized news media, and to the New York and San Francisco offices of OWI where it is prepared for shortwave radio broadcasts and cable transmission overseas

Office of War Information news bureau. These OWI reporters work six days a week on stories for both domestic and overseas use. In the course of a week most of them turn out a list of assignments as long as a cub reporter's. Examples of the variety of stories done: "Roundup on wartime transportation," "Industrial feeding program started in war plants," "U.S. Army heroes of Greek descent," "How to get your tires recapped." Stories for domestic release go to the chief of the general news desk. Ken Stewart, chief of the foreign desk, reviews all overseas assignments

Office of War Information News Bureau. The News Bureau room of the OWI. It is arranged much the same way as the city room of a daily newspaper. Here, war news of the world is disseminated. In the foreground, are editors' desks handling such special services as trade press, women's activities, and campaigns. The news desk is in the background

Office of War Information News Bureau. Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, talks over a news release with Sutherland Denlinger. The chief of the general news desk keep an eye on all the news that goes out of the news bureau to the seventy- five correspondents in the Office of War Information's Washington press room, to all specialized news media, and to the New York and San Francisco offices of OWI where it is prepared for shortwave radio broadcasts and cable transmission overseas

Office of War Information news bureau. Chief of the Foreign Desk, Kenneth Stewart heads the OWI staff which gathers news of wartime Washington for use by the Overseas Division in New York and San Francisco. News sent from Washington, queries answered here, find their way into shortwave broadcasts to occupied lands; pamphlets and leaflets dropped on hostile towns and villages; cables carrying news of America to our friends and allies. Achilles Sakell talks over a script for the Balkan countries with Stewart

Office of War Information news bureau. Ted Poston, shown here with Elmer Roessner, chief of the general news desk, sees that Negro papers across the country get their share of war news. Tale of a City, an OWI pamphlet on Nazi treatment of Poland, which Poston and Roessner are discussing here, was distributed through the Negro desk to 240 papers, and 50,000 copies went to Negro organizations

New York, New York. Newsroom of the New York Times newspaper. Ten o'clock is news room deadline. Copy is sent up to composing room on moving belt. Telegraph desk in background

Office of War Information news bureau. Smiling unnaturally, some of the newsmen in OWI busy press room grab for a handout giving point values on canned goods from George (fatso) McMillan, assistant chief of the news bureau. McMillan has tried to make the news bureau work like a newspaper, has a reputation for understanding the newsman's side of government information

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Men eating at Salvation Army. Newport News, Virginia

Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese-Americans from West coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Leaving for Owens Valley

Citation winner. Certificate winner, George Smolarek, employed in the Aircraft Engine Department, Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, at the luncheon tendered by Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB), following the White House ceremony

Oswego, New York. Willard DiSantis, sixteen-year old high school boy who made seventy-six model planes for the U.S. Navy, and was awarded the honarary rank of admiral

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, speaking at microphone at a press conference at F and 5th Streets, NE, Washington, D.C., the site of the murder of his friend, Thomas "Gray" Liddell]

Col. Knox appears before Senate Naval Affairs Committee. Washington, D.C., July 2. A general view of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee room as Col. Frank Knox testified today regarding his qualifications to be secretary of the Navy. Knock can bee seen on the right facing the Committee, 7-2-40

Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieutenant of the late Huey Long, is snapped by news cameramen as he rests in his office after leading the victorious fight for the compromise in the wage-hour bill. The compromise is expected to make wage differentials possible for many southern industries. He has threatened a filibuster unless the south got what it wanted in the measure, 6/13/38

Increased business volume key to recovery. Hopkins new Executive Assistant. Washington, D.C., April 13. In his first Press Conference today, Edward J. Noble, newly appointed Assistant to Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, told newsmen that he thought the key to recovery was to increase business volume. He said that if volume could be increased to a sufficiently high level, tax rates could be lowered without disturbing the government's revenue. 4-13-39

Closed old court; will open in? Frank J. Wideman, Assistant Attorney General in the Tax Division, will represent the government in the first case to go before the Supreme Court in the new building, and he holds the honor of arguing the last case to be heard in the old Supreme Court quarters. He has won 10 out of his last 11 cases. He represented the government, and won, in the Sandy-Fox case last session, which involved the Five Civilized Indian Tribes vis the United States. He will defend the government in the Douglas-Willicutts case, in which Edward B. Douglas seeks a return of tax money from Levi M. Willicutts, Collector of Internal Revenue, 10/4/35

Washington, D.C. Home economics students working in the model industry at the Woodrow Wilson High School

Kauai District, Territory of Hawaii. Registrants of Local Board Two, Lihue, Kauai, arriving at the hospital to take the physical examination before induction into the United States Army

Washington, D.C. Mario Verdi (left), OWI (Office of War Information) radio commentator for Italy, visiting Mr. Leo Crowley, administrator of the Federal Economic Administration

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