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Office of War Mobilization (OWM)- Federal agency headed by Former Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes that coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort during World War II. This o...
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With the Navy an increasingly active participant but the office of the assistant secretary of war still the driving force, the board sponsored the industrial mobilization plans of the 1930s. In so doing, it actually became a transitional agency, until the establishment of the projected civilian superagency at the outset...
www.history.army.mil/documents/mobpam.htm
The Office of War Information (OWI) was created in 1942 and served as an important U.S. government propaganda agency during World War II. ... The OWI News Bureau had operated within the Office for Emergency Management (OEM) during 1941 and 1942; some photographs from the OEM period are included in this set.
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THE OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION (AND RECONVERSION) ... In early 1943 the president was being pushed to establish a war mobilization office by Senator Harry Truman and his committee.
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The Office of War Mobilization was a powerful government agency created in 1942 by FDR after a Senate committee (led by Harry Truman) felt that there was a lack of unity in the industrial effort of the war.
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At present the Office for Emergency Management embraces the following war agencies: Committee on Fair Employment Practices, Foreign Economic Administration, National War Labor Board, Office of Alien Property Custodian, Office of Civilian Defense, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs,
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Records of the office of War Mobilization and Reconversion [OWMR] in the holdings of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. From the Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the U.S. ... 250.2 RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF WAR MOBILIZATION May-December 1943 8 lin. ft.
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Stimson Letter to Senator Reynolds on Organization of an Office of War Mobilization and Civilian Versus Military Responsibility for Procurement...
www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/ASF/appendix_f.htm
FOLDER TITLE LIST ... Copies of entries pertaining to Records of John R. Steelman, Assistant to the President, from National Archives Preliminary Inventory No. 25, Records of the OWMR ... GENERAL CLASSIFIED FILE...
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