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Time Magazine-March 15, 1943-Volume XLI-Number 11-80 pages. This vintage, complete Time Magazine-which originally sold for fifteen cents-features a color cover of the World War II Office of War Information Director-Elmer Davis.......................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 recipient......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 was named director. Besides coordinating the release of war news for domestic use, the office established an overseas branch, under Robert E. Sherwood, 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. The Tim Magazine has been hand signed on the front cover by Elmer Davis..................BOTH TIME MAGAZINE AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
