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Heath, Bataan (film), Beate Sirota Gordon, Ben Shahn, Bernard Perlin, Bess Lomax Hawes, Bessie Breuer, Beyond the Line of Duty, Bill Ballantine (illustrator), Bill de Blasio, Black Marketing, Bomber: A Defense Report on Film, Brazil at War, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, ..., Burgess Meredith, Calder Willingham, Campus on the March, Capricorn Concerto, Carl Marzani, Casablanca (film), Cass Canfield, Cecil de Blaquiere Howard, Ceiling Unlimited, Charles Alston, Charles Siepmann, Chester Sidney Williams, Christina Krotkova, Clara G. McMillan, Claude-Anne Lopez, Combat America, Command Performance (radio), Committee on Public Information, Cordwainer Smith, Council on Books in Wartime, Cowles Media Company, Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, Croswell Bowen, Daphne Athas, Darryl F. Zanuck, David Karr, David O. Selznick filmography, De Wervelwind, December 7th: The Movie, Declaration by United Nations, Divide and Conquer (film), Dmitry Grigorieff, Dody Weston Thompson, Don Hollenbeck, Donald Jason Flamm, Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, Drew Pearson (journalist), Earl Riley, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Edith Thacher Hurd, Edward G. Robinson, Edward P. Lilly, Edward W. Barrett, Edward Y. Hartshorne, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Effect of World War I on children in the United States, Eitaro Ishigaki, Elliott Carter, Ellis M. Zacharias, Elmer Davis, Elmo Roper, Emily Barnelia Woodward, Emlen Etting, Entertainment industry during World War II, Ernestine Evans, Esther Bubley, Eugene Dennis, Executive Order 9102, Faith McNulty, Fanny Brennan, February 1943, February 20, Felix M. 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Powell, Joseph Fels Barnes, Joseph Krumgold, Julien Green, Julius Epstein (author), Julius Joseph (spy), June 1942, Katyn massacre, Kazuo Aoyama, Keeper of the Flame (film), Ken Purdy, Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Lang, Ladies Courageous, Léo Lania, Leith Stevens, Leo Hershfield, Leo Löwenthal, Leonard Roy Harmon, Leonard W. Doob, Lew Chudd, Lewis Wade Jones, Library of Congress (film), Lifeboat (film), Lillian Moller Gilbreth, List of Allied propaganda films of World War II, List of American films of 1942, List of American films of 1946, List of defunct or renamed United States federal agencies, List of documentary films, List of documentary films about the Japanese American internment, List of films in the public domain in the United States, List of former United States citizens who relinquished their nationality, List of live-action short subject series by Hollywood studios, List of Punahou School alumni, List of Rhodes Scholars, List of U.S. executive branch czars, Little Tokyo, U.S.A., Loose lips sink ships, Louise Rosenblatt, Louise Rosskam, Luigi Sturzo, Maida Springer Kemp, Malcolm Cowley, Manpower (1942 film), Marion K. Sanders, Marjory Collins, Martin Ebon, Mary Lee Settle, Men of the Sky (1942 film), Milburn Stone, Milton S. Eisenhower, Mission Accomplished (film), Mission to Moscow, Molina and Johnson, Morale Operations Branch, Mrs. Miniver (character), Murray Leinster, My Japan, Mythology and legacy of Benjamin Banneker, Natasha Borovsky, Negro Colleges in War Time, News, Norman Rose, Office for Emergency Management, Office of the Coordinator of Information, Office of War Mobilization, Oscar Dystel, Our Enemy — The Japanese, Owen Lattimore, Pare Lorentz, Passport to Suez, Pat Frank, Paul Stewart (actor), Peter Rhodes, Peter Sekaer, Phi Delta Theta, Philip Dunne (writer), Political Warfare Executive, Politics of the United States during World War II, Polly Shackleton, Potsdam Declaration, Prelude to War, Princess O'Rourke, Project Troy, Propaganda, Propaganda in Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, Propaganda in the United States, Prostitution in Germany, Prunella Clough, Psychological Operations (United States), Psychological Warfare Division, Public diplomacy of the United States, R. V. C. Bodley, Rachel Bespaloff, Radio 1212, Radio propaganda, Ralph J. Gleason, Ralph Rosenblum, Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter, Reed Harris, Resisting Enemy Interrogation, Reward Unlimited, Rex Stout, Richard J. Burke, Richard Plant (writer), Robert E. Sherwood, Robert Lowie, Robert Riskin, Robert Sabatino Lopez, Sally Lilienthal, Scrap the Japs, Selznick International Pictures, September 1945, Sidney Meyers, Sidney Slon, Sigmund Skard, Smith–Mundt Act, Society of Red Tape Cutters, SS George Washington Carver, Stanton Griffis, Suggestion Box, Swedes in America, Tambi Larsen, Target-Invisible, Ted Berry, Ted Patrick (editor), Ted Poston, Tennessee Johnson, Than E, That Justice Be Done, The Army Hour, The Autobiography of a 'Jeep', The Battle of Britain, The Battle of China, The Battle of Russia, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Mad Men), The Desert Song (1943 film), The Fight for the Sky, The Nazis Strike, The Phantom, The Price of Victory, The Purple Heart, The Rear Gunner, The Stilwell Road (film), The Testament of Freedom, The Town (1945 film), The True Glory, The World at War (film), Theodore Kaghan, Theodore Tinsley, This I Believe, Thomas M. 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A Letter from Bataan

A Letter from Bataan is a 1942 "Victory Short" documentary film or propaganda film made by Paramount Pictures in collaboration with the U.S. Office of War Information and the United States Government.

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A.B.C. Whipple

Addison Beecher Colvin ("Cal") Whipple (July 15, 1918 – March 17, 2013) was an American journalist, editor, historian and author.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Adventure in Iraq

Adventure in Iraq is a 1943 American adventure film directed by D. Ross Lederman and starring John Loder, Ruth Ford, Warren Douglas and Paul Cavanagh.

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Africa, Prelude to Victory

Africa, Prelude to Victory was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information (OWI) in the 1942 Frank Capra's film Prelude to War.

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Aimee Semple McPherson

Aimee Semple McPherson (Aimée, in the original French; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or simply Sister, was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s,Obituary Variety, October 4, 1944.

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Alan Barth

Alan Barth (1906–1979) was a 20th-century American journalist and author, specializing in civil liberties, best known for his 30-year stint as an editorial writer at The Washington Post as well as his books, particularly The Loyalty of Free Men (1951).

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Alan Cranston

Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was an American politician, journalist and world federalist who served as a United States Senator from California, from 1969 to 1993.

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Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.

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Albert Glasser

Albert Glasser (January 25, 1916 – May 4, 1998) was a composer, conductor and arranger of film music, primarily in the realm of B-movies during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

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Alexander Comstock Kirk

Alexander Comstock Kirk (November 26, 1888 – March 23, 1979) was a United States diplomat.

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Alexander Gregory Barmine

Alexander Grigoryevich Barmin (Александр Григорьевич Бармин Aleksandr Grigoryevich Barmin; 16 August 1899 – 25 December 1987) was an officer in the Soviet Army who fled the purges of the Joseph Stalin era.

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Alexandr Hackenschmied

Alexandr Hackenschmied, born Alexander Siegried George Smahel, known later as Alexander Hammid (17 December 1907, Linz – 26 July 2004, New York City) was a Czech-American photographer, film director, cinematographer and editor.

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Alfred T. Palmer

Alfred T. Palmer (1906–1993) was a photographer who is best known for his photographs depicting Americana during World War II, as he became an Office of War Information photographer from 1942 until 1943.

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Allan Nevins

Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service.

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Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

Alvin M. Josephy Jr. (May 18, 1915 – October 16, 2005) was an American historian who specialized in Native American issues.

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Amerasia

Amerasia was a journal of Far Eastern affairs best known for the 1940s "Amerasia Affair" in which several of its staff and their contacts were suspected of espionage and charged with unauthorized possession of government documents.

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American Broadcasting Station in Europe

The American Broadcasting Station in Europe (ABSIE) was a radio broadcasting station set up by the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) in collaboration with the British BBC to counter Nazi propaganda.

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American propaganda during World War II

During active American involvement in World War II (1941–45), propaganda was used to increase support for the war and commitment to an Allied victory.

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Americans Will Always Fight for Liberty

Americans will always fight for liberty is the title of a poster frequently displayed throughout the United States during World War II.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.

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Appointment in Tokyo

Appointment in Tokyo is a 1945 documentary released Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner Bros.

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Archibald MacLeish

Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry.

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Arrows in the Dark

Arrows in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership and Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust is a book by Israeli historian Tuvia Friling dealing with the attitude toward the Holocaust of the leadership of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine that existed before the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948.

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Arthur Adams (spy)

Arthur Aleksandrovich Adams (October 25, 1885, Eskilstuna, Sweden – January 14, 1969) – a Soviet spy, Hero of the Russian Federation, who passed to the Soviet Union critical information about the American Manhattan Project.

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Arthur Leo Zagat

Arthur Leo Zagat (1896–1949) was an American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual.

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Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor.

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Association for Asian Studies

The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is a scholarly, non-political and non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia and the study of Asia.

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Attack! The Battle of New Britain

Attack! The Battle of New Britain is a documentary/propaganda film produced by the US military in 1944.

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Aurora, Indiana

Aurora is a city in Center Township, Dearborn County, Indiana, United States.

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Ayako Ishigaki

was an issei journalist.

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Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan is a 1945 American black-and-white World War II war film drama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk, that stars John Wayne and Anthony Quinn.

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Barbara Stephens (journalist)

Barbara Stephens (August 30, 1922 – July 31, 1947) was a young American journalist who died in a mysterious plane crash in Xinjiang province, China in 1947.

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Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian and author.

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Basil F. Heath

Basil F. Heath (March 18, 1917 – January 24, 2011), better-known by his stage name, Chief White Eagle, was an actor, stuntman and television personality whose career spanned several decades beginning with the 1940 film, Northwest Passage.

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Bataan (film)

Bataan is a 1943 American black-and-white World War II film drama from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Irving Starr (with Dore Schary as executive producer), directed by Tay Garnett, that stars Robert Taylor, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell, and Robert Walker.

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Beate Sirota Gordon

Beate Sirota Gordon (October 25, 1923 – December 30, 2012) was an Austrian-born American performing arts presenter and women's rights advocate.

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Ben Shahn

Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist.

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Bernard Perlin

Bernard Perlin was an American painter.

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Bess Lomax Hawes

Bess Lomax Hawes (January 21, 1921 – November 27, 2009) was an American folk musician, folklorist, and researcher.

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Bessie Breuer

Bessie Breuer (October 19, 1893 – September 26, 1975) was an American journalist, novelist, writer, and playwright.

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Beyond the Line of Duty

Beyond the Line of Duty is a 1942 American short propaganda film, directed by Lewis Seiler.

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Bill Ballantine (illustrator)

Bill Ballantine (1910–1999) was a writer and illustrator of circus subjects, as well as a professional clown.

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Bill de Blasio

Bill de Blasio (born Warren Wilhelm Jr.; May 8, 1961) is an American politician and civil servant who is currently serving as the 109th Mayor of New York City.

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Black Marketing

Black Marketing is an American 1943 dramatic propaganda documentary short produced by the United States Office of War Information and directed by William Castle.

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Bomber: A Defense Report on Film

Bomber: A Defense Report on Film is a 1941 American short documentary film produced by the United States Office for Emergency Management, and was edited from the 19-minute Building a Bomber: A Defense Report on Film (1941).

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Brazil at War

Brazil at War is a 1943 propaganda short documentary film produced by the Office of War Information and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.

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Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the United States Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world.

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Burgess Meredith

Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997) was an American actor, director, producer, and writer.

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Calder Willingham

Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995)Alex Macaulay, from the New Georgia Encyclopedia was an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Campus on the March

Campus on the March is a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1942.

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Capricorn Concerto

Capricorn Concerto, Op.

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Carl Marzani

Carl Aldo Marzani (4 March 1912 – 11 December 1994) was an Italian-born American leftwing political activist and publisher.

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Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison's unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's.

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Cass Canfield

Augustus Cass Canfield (April 26, 1897 – March 27, 1986) was an American publishing executive who was the longtime president and chairman of Harper & Brothers, later Harper & Row.

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Cecil de Blaquiere Howard

Cecil de Blaquiere Howard, sometimes Cecil Howard, (April 2, 1888 - September 5, 1956), born in Clifton, Welland County, Ontario, Canada (today Niagara Falls) was an American painter and sculptor.

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Ceiling Unlimited

Ceiling Unlimited (later known as America — Ceiling Unlimited) (1942–1944) is a CBS radio series created by Orson Welles and sponsored by the Lockheed-Vega Corporation.

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Charles Alston

Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem.

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Charles Siepmann

Charles Siepmann (1899–1985) was a British-born media scholar and policy advocate who spent much of his career in the United States where he was a professor at New York University's graduate communication program for over two decades.

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Chester Sidney Williams

Chester Sidney Williams (1907–1992) was an American educator and author who wrote extensively about education and freedoms.

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Christina Krotkova

Christina Krotkova worked in the Office of War Information (OWI) during World War II.

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Clara G. McMillan

Clara Gooding McMillan (August 17, 1894 – November 8, 1976) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, and wife of Thomas S. McMillan.

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Claude-Anne Lopez

Claude-Anne Lopez (October 17, 1920 – December 28, 2012), born Claude-Anne Kirschen, was a Belgian-American writer and scholar who specialized in studies of Benjamin Franklin.

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Combat America

Combat America is a 1945 documentary film produced in World War II, narrated by Clark Gable.

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Command Performance (radio)

Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949.

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Committee on Public Information

The Committee on Public Information, also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence public opinion to support US participation in World War I. In just over 26 months, from April 14, 1917, to June 30, 1919, it used every medium available to create enthusiasm for the war effort and to enlist public support against the foreign and perceived domestic attempts to stop America's participation in the war.

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Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith was the pen-name used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works.

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Council on Books in Wartime

The Council on Books in Wartime (1942–1946) was an American non-profit organization founded by booksellers, publishers, librarians, authors, and others, in the spring of 1942 to channel the use of books as "weapons in the war of ideas" (the Council's motto).

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Cowles Media Company

Cowles Media Company (1935–1998) was a newspaper, magazine and information publishing company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States.

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Crosley Broadcasting Corporation

The Crosley Broadcasting Corporation was a radio and television broadcaster founded by radio manufacturing pioneer Powel Crosley, Jr..

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Croswell Bowen

Croswell Bowen (1905–1971) was an American political reporter, activist journalist, and biographer who contributed extensively to newspapers and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Daphne Athas

Daphne Athas (born November 19, 1923) is an American author, best known for the 1971 novel Entering Ephesus, which was included on Time Magazine's Ten Best Fiction List in 1971.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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David Karr

David Harold Karr, born David Katz (1918, Brooklyn, New York – 7 July 1979, Paris) was a controversial American journalist, businessman, Communist and NKVD agent.

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David O. Selznick filmography

David O. Selznick (1902–1965) was an American motion picture producer whose work consists of three short subjects, 67 feature films, and one television production made between 1923 and 1957.

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De Wervelwind

De Wervelwind (Eng: The Tornado) was a journal published in London and dropped by the Royal Air Force over the Netherlands during the Second World War.

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December 7th: The Movie

December 7th: The Movie is a 1943 propaganda film produced by the US Navy and directed by John Ford and Gregg Toland, about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the event which sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in World War II.

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Declaration by United Nations

The Declaration by United Nations was a World War II document agreed on 1 January 1942 during the Arcadia Conference by 26 governments: the Allied "Big Four" (the US, the UK, the USSR, and China), nine other American countries in North and Central America and the Caribbean, the four British Dominions, British India, and eight Allied governments-in-exile, for a total of twenty-six nations.

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Divide and Conquer (film)

Divide and Conquer (1943) is the third film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

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Dmitry Grigorieff

Archpriest Dmitry Grigorieff (May 14, 1919 – December 8, 2007) was the dean emeritus of the Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Washington D.C..

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Dody Weston Thompson

Dody Weston Thompson (April 11, 1923 – October 14, 2012) was a 20th-century American photographer and chronicler of the history and craft of photography.

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Don Hollenbeck

Don Hollenbeck (March 30, 1905June 22, 1954) was a CBS newscaster, commentator, and associate of Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly.

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Donald Jason Flamm

Donald J. Flamm (1899–1998) was an American radio pioneer.

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Dorothy Graffe Van Doren

Dorothy Graffe (May 2, 1896 – February 21, 1993) was an American novelist.

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Drew Pearson (journalist)

Andrew Russell "Drew" Pearson (December 13, 1897 – September 1, 1969) was one of the best-known American columnists of his day, noted for his syndicated newspaper column “Washington Merry-Go-Round,” in which he criticized various public persons.

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Earl Riley

Earl Riley (February 18, 1890 – August 17, 1965) was an Oregon politician and businessman, and mayor of Portland, Oregon, United States, from 1941–1949.

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Edgar Ansel Mowrer

Edgar Ansel Mowrer (March 8, 1892 – March 2, 1977) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and author best known for his writings on international events.

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Edith Thacher Hurd

Edith Thacher Hurd (September 14, 1910 – January 25, 1997) was an American writer of children's books.

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Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg; December 12, 1893January 26, 1973) was a Romanian-American actor of stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Edward P. Lilly

Edward Paul Lilly (October 13, 1910 – December 1, 1994) was an American historian, author, educator, and government worker who specialized in the history of political and psychological warfare in the twentieth century.

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Edward W. Barrett

Edward Ware Barrett (1910–1989) was an American journalist who was Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from 1950 to 1952, and Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 1956 to 1968, in which capacity he founded the Columbia Journalism Review in 1961.

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Edward Y. Hartshorne

Edward Yarnall Hartshorne, Jr. (name pronounced Heart's horn: 1912 – August 30, 1946 in Germany) was the principal education officer in the American Military Government responsible for the reopening of the German universities in the U.S. occupation zone after World War II.

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Edwin Palmer Hoyt

Edwin Palmer Hoyt (August 5, 1923 – July 29, 2005) was an American writer who specialized in military history.

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Effect of World War I on children in the United States

Though the United States was in combat for only a matter of months, the reorganization of society had a great effect on American life.

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Eitaro Ishigaki

was an American artist.

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Elliott Carter

Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American composer who was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

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Ellis M. Zacharias

Ellis Mark Zacharias, Sr. (January 1, 1890 – June 27, 1961) was a Rear admiral and naval attaché to Japan, who served in World War I and World War II.

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Elmer Davis

Elmer Davis (January 13, 1890 – May 18, 1958) was a news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient.

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Elmo Roper

Elmo Burns Roper, Jr. (July 31, 1900 in Hebron, Nebraska – April 30, 1971 in Redding, Connecticut) was a pollster known for his pioneering work in market research and opinion polling.

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Emily Barnelia Woodward

Emily Barnelia Woodward (May 2, 1885 – March 23, 1970) was an American journalist and advocate.

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Emlen Etting

Emlen Etting (August 24, 1905 – July 20, 1993) was a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and member of Philadelphia’s elite Main Line Society.

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Entertainment industry during World War II

The entertainment industry during World War II underwent changes to help aid the cause of the war.

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Ernestine Evans

Ernestine Evans (August 9, 1889 – July 3, 1967) was an American journalist, editor, author and literary agent.

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Esther Bubley

Esther Bubley (1921–1998) was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives.

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Eugene Dennis

Francis Xavier Waldron (August 10, 1905 – January 31, 1961), best known by the pseudonym Eugene Dennis and Tim Ryan, was an American communist politician and union organizer, best remembered as the long-time leader of the Communist Party USA and as named party in Dennis v. United States, a famous McCarthy Era Supreme Court case.

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Executive Order 9102

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.

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Faith McNulty

Faith McNulty (November 28, 1918 – April 10, 2005) was an American non-fiction author, probably best known for her 1980 literary journalism genre book The Burning Bed.

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Fanny Brennan

Fanny Brennan (1921–2001) was a French-American surrealist painter.

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February 1943

The following events occurred in February 1943.

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February 20

No description.

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Felix M. Keesing

Felix M. Keesing (January 5, 1902 – April 1961) was a New Zealand-born anthropologist who specialized in the study of the Philippine Islands and the South Pacific.

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Flirting

Flirting or coquetry is a social and sexual behavior involving verbal or written communication, as well as body language, by one person to another, either to suggest interest in a deeper relationship with the other person, or if done playfully, for amusement.

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Flora Wovschin

Flora Don Wovschin (born 20 February 1923), was a suspected Soviet spy who later renounced her American citizenship.

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Food for Fighters

Food for Fighters is a 1943 propaganda short about nutrition in the Armed Services produced by the Office of War Information.

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Four Freedoms

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941.

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Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)

The Four Freedoms is a series of four 1943 oil paintings by the American artist Norman Rockwell.

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Frank Edward Brown

Frank Edward Brown (b. LaGrange, Illinois, USA, May 24, 1908; d. Marco Island, Florida, February 28, 1988) was a preeminent Mediterranean archaeologist.

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Frank Shozo Baba

Frank Shōzō Baba (フランク 正三 馬場, January 3, 1915 – January 16, 2008) was a Japanese American Nisei who made radio broadcasts during World War II in the United States and in post-war Japan.

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Frank Stanton (executive)

Frank Nicholas Stanton (March 20, 1908 – December 24, 2006) was an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then as vice chairman until 1973.

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Franklin College (Indiana)

Franklin College is a residential, liberal arts institution founded in 1834 in Franklin, Indiana.

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Freedom from Want (painting)

Freedom from Want, also known as The Thanksgiving Picture or I'll Be Home for Christmas, is the third of the ''Four Freedoms'' series of four oil paintings by American artist Norman Rockwell.

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French Indochina in World War II

In 1940, France was swiftly defeated by Nazi Germany, and colonial administration of French Indochina (modern-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) passed to the pro-German Vichy French government.

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Gabriel Almond

Gabriel A. Almond (January 12, 1911 – December 25, 2002) was a political scientist from the United States best known for his pioneering work on comparative politics, political development, and political culture.

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Gail Kubik

Gail Thompson Kubik (September 5, 1914, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma – July 20, 1984, Covina, California) was an American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher.

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George E. Taylor (historian)

George Edward Taylor (13 December 1905 – 14 April 2000) was a prolific and influential scholar of Chinese studies, professor at University of Washington, Seattle from 1939 to 1969, and director of the Far Eastern and Russian Institute (later the Henry Jackson School) at the University of Washington from 1946 to 1969.

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George Fenneman

George Watt Fenneman (November 10, 1919 – May 29, 1997) was an American radio and television announcer.

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George Howard Earle III

George Howard Earle III (December 5, 1890December 30, 1974) was an American politician and diplomat.

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George M.A. Hanfmann

George Maxim Anossov Hanfmann (born November 1911, in St. Petersburg, Russia; died March 13, 1986, in Watertown, Massachusetts) was a famous archaeologist and scholar of ancient Mediterranean art.

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George Strock

George Strock was a photojournalist during World War II when he took a picture of three American soldiers who were killed during the Battle of Buna-Gona on the Buna beach.

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German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey is the official British documentary film on the Nazi concentration camps, based on footage shot by the Allied forces in 1945.

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GI Jill

GI Jill was the disc jockey host of GI Jive, a music program on the Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec.

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Glenn Miller discography

In addition to leading bands and playing the trombone, Glenn Miller composed music or lyrics to a number of songs.

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Gordon Parks

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans—and in glamour photography.

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H. Harvard Arnason

Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason (1909 – 1986) was an American academic, administrator, author and art historian focusing on modern art.

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Hal Block

Harold "Hal" Block (August 2, 1913 – June 16, 1981) was an American comedy writer, comedian, producer, songwriter and television personality.

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Harold Courlander

Harold Courlander (September 18, 1908 – March 15, 1996) was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, an expert in the study of Haitian life.

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Harold Rosenberg

Harold Rosenberg (February 2, 1906, New York City – July 11, 1978, New York City) was an American writer, educator, philosopher and art critic.

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Harry Alpert

Harry Alpert (1912 – 1977) is an American sociologist, best known for his directorship of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) social science program in the 1950s.

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Heinz Ansbacher

Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher (October 21, 1904 – June 22, 2006) was a German-American psychologist specializing in the theories of Alfred Adler.

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Helen Dinerman

Helen Schneider Dinerman (25 December 1920 – 14 August 1974) was an American sociologist and public opinion researcher.

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Helen Tenney

Helen Barrett Tenney worked for the Comintern apparatus in the 1930s and funnelled information to the Soviet Union on behalf of the Spanish Communists where she learned espionage tradecraft.

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Henry F. Pringle

Henry F. Pringle was an american historian and author most famous for his biography of Theodore Roosevelt which won the Pulitzer prize in 1932.

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Henry Koerner

Henry Koerner (born Heinrich Sieghart Körner; August 28, 1915 – July 4, 1991) was an Austrian-born American painter and graphic designer best known for his early Magical Realist works of the late 1940s and his portrait covers for Time magazine.

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Herbert Brucker

Herbert Brucker (1898–1977) was a journalist, teacher, and national advocate for the freedom of the press.

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Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory.

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Here Is Germany

Here Is Germany is a 1945 American propaganda documentary film directed by Frank Capra.

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History of communication studies

Various aspects of communication have been the subject of study since ancient times, and the approach eventually developed into the academic discipline known today as communication studies.

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History of propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively (perhaps lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information presented.

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Holger Cahill

Edgar Holger Cahill (January 13, 1887 – July 8, 1960) was an Icelandic-American curator, writer, and arts administrator who served as the national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal in the United States.

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Hollister Noble

Charles Hollister Noble (September 2, 1901 – July 20, 1954) was an American historical novelist and screenwriter.

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House of Dolls

House of Dolls is a 1955 novella by Ka-tzetnik 135633.

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Howard Fast

Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer.

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Hymn of the Nations

Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations, is a 1944 film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features the Inno delle nazioni, a patriotic work for tenor soloist, chorus, and orchestra, composed by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi in the early-1860s.

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I Sustain the Wings

"I Sustain the Wings" is a 1943 big band and jazz instrumental co-written by Glenn Miller.

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Ian MacKaye

Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, record label owner and producer.

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Index of World War II articles (U)

# U-571 (film).

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Inno delle nazioni

(Hymn of nations), a cantata in a single movement, is one of only two secular choral works composed by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Irving Lerner

Irving Lerner (7 March 1909, New York City - 25 December 1976, Los Angeles) was an American filmmaker.

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Ismail Khalidi

Ismail Ragib Khalidi (إسماعيل راغب الخالدي; 13 November 1916 – 2 September 1968) was a senior political affairs officer for the United Nations Department of Political Affairs.

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It's Everybody's War

It's Everybody's War was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by 20th Century Fox and distributed by the Office of War Information in 1942.

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Jack Delano

Jack Delano (August 1, 1914 – August 12, 1997) was an American photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and a composer noted for his use of Puerto Rican folk material.

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Jack Schiff

Jack Schiff (1909 – April 30, 1999) was an American comic book writer and editor best known for his work editing various Batman comic book series for DC Comics from 1942 to 1964.

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James Reston

James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s.

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James Warburg

James Paul Warburg (August 18, 1896 – June 3, 1969) was a German-born Jewish American banker.

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Jan Peerce

Jan Peerce (June 3, 1904 December 15, 1984) was an American operatic tenor.

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Jane Bissell Grabhorn

Jane Bissell Grabhorn (1911–1973) was an American artist, typographer, bookbinder, and printer.

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Jane Jacobs

Jane Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics.

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Japanese American Committee for Democracy

The Japanese American Committee for Democracy (JACD) was an organization during World War II.

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Japanese dissidence during the early Shōwa period

Japanese dissidence during the early Shōwa period in World War II covers individual Japanese opponents to the militarist Empire of Japan before and during WWII.

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Japanese Relocation (1942 film)

Japanese Relocation is a 1942 short film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information and distributed by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry.

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Jay Bennett (author)

Jay Bennett (December 24, 1912 - June 27, 2009) was an American author and two-time winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

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Jewell Mazique

Jewell R. Mazique (2 October 1913 - 18 September 2007) was an activist who helped found the Capital Transit campaign with United Federal Workers to integrate Washington D.C.'s bus operators.

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John Collier Jr.

John Collier Jr. (May 22, 1913 – February 25, 1992) was an American anthropologist and an early leader in the fields of visual anthropology and applied anthropology.

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John Gutmann

John Gutmann (1905 – June 12, 1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter.

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John Houseman

John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902October 31, 1988) was a British-American actor and producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane and his storied collaboration with writer Raymond Chandler's intoxicated screenplay rendering as producer of The Blue Dahlia. He is perhaps best known for his role as Professor Charles W. Kingsfield in the film The Paper Chase (1973), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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John K. Fairbank

John King Fairbank (May 24, 1907 – September 14, 1991), was a prominent American historian of China.

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John McKim

John McKim (July 17, 1852 - April 4, 1936) was an American missionary who became Anglican Bishop of Tokyo (later North Tokyo) and Chancellor of Rikkyo University, which was part of the infrastructure he helped rebuild after a severe earthquake in 1923.

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John Vachon

John Felix Vachon (May 19, 1914 – April 20, 1975) was an American photographer.

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John W. Powell

John William Powell (July 3, 1919 – December 15, 2008) was a journalist and small business proprietor who was most well known for being tried for sedition after publishing an article in 1952 that reported on allegations made by Mainland Chinese officials that the United States and Japan were carrying out germ warfare in the Korean War.

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Joseph Fels Barnes

Joseph Fels Barnes (1907-1970) was an American journalist.

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Joseph Krumgold

Joseph Quincy Krumgold (April 9, 1908 – July 10, 1980) was an American writer of books and screenplays.

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Julien Green

Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998) was an American writer who authored several novels (The Dark Journey, The Closed Garden, Moira, Each Man in His Darkness, the Dixie trilogy, etc.), a four-volume autobiography (The Green Paradise, The War at Sixteen, Love in America and Restless Youth) and his famous Diary (in nineteen volumes, 1919–1998).

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Julius Epstein (author)

Julius Epstein (1901–1975) was a journalist and scholar, an Austrian Jewish émigré who fled Europe in 1938, worked during World War II in the Office of War Information, and then a prominent American anti-communist researcher and critic of the Soviet Union.

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Julius Joseph (spy)

Julius J. Joseph was an American government official.

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June 1942

The following events occurred in June 1942.

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Katyn massacre

The Katyn massacre (zbrodnia katyńska, "Katyń massacre" or "Katyn crime"; Катынская резня or Катынский расстрел Katynskij reznya, "Katyn massacre") was a series of mass executions of Polish intelligentsia carried out by the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940.

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Kazuo Aoyama

was a Japanese communist who joined the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Keeper of the Flame (film)

Keeper of the Flame is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) drama film directed by George Cukor, and starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

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Ken Purdy

Kenneth William Purdy (April 28, 1913 – June 7, 1972) was an American automotive writer and editor.

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Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Lang

Kurt Lang (born January 25, 1924) and Gladys Engel Lang (1919-2016) are American sociologists and communications theorists whose early work is associated with the Chicago School.

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Ladies Courageous

Ladies Courageous (also called Fury in the Sky in a 1950 Realart re-release) is a 1944 war film based on the novel Looking For Trouble (1941) by Virginia Spencer Cowles.

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Léo Lania

Leo Lania (1896–1961) was a journalist, playwright and screenwriter.

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Leith Stevens

Leith Stevens (September 13, 1909 – July 23, 1970) was an American music composer and conductor of radio and film scores.

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Leo Hershfield

Leo Hershfield (1904–1979) was a prominent American illustrator, cartoonist and courtroom artist for NBC News.

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Leo Löwenthal

Leo Löwenthal (3 November 1900 – 21 January 1993) was a German sociologist usually associated with the Frankfurt School.

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Leonard Roy Harmon

Leonard Roy Harmon (January 21, 1917–November 13, 1942) was a black American sailor who died in action during World War II and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his valor.

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Leonard W. Doob

Leonard William Doob (March 3, 1909 – March 29, 2000), was the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University, was a pioneering figure in the fields of cognitive and social psychology, propaganda and communication studies, as well as conflict resolution.

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Lew Chudd

Lewis Robert "Lew" Chudd (July 11, 1911 – June 15, 1998) was an American record label and radio executive who founded Imperial Records in 1946.

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Lewis Wade Jones

Lewis Wade Jones (March 13, 1910September 1979) was a sociologist and teacher.

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Library of Congress (film)

Library of Congress is a 1945 American short documentary film about the Library of Congress, directed by Alexander Hammid, and produced by the Office of War Information.

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Lifeboat (film)

Lifeboat is a 1944 American survival and drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story by John Steinbeck.

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Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth (May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies.

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List of Allied propaganda films of World War II

During World War II and immediately after it, in addition to the many private films created to help the war effort, many Allied countries had governmental or semi-governmental agencies commission propaganda and training films for home and foreign consumption.

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List of American films of 1942

A list of American films released in 1942.

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List of American films of 1946

A list of American films released in 1946.

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List of defunct or renamed United States federal agencies

* Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (in the Department of Agriculture) (ASCS).

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List of documentary films

This is an alphabetical list of documentary films with Wikipedia articles.

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List of documentary films about the Japanese American internment

This is a list of documentary films about the Japanese American internment.

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List of films in the public domain in the United States

This is a non-definitive list of films in the public domain in the United States.

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List of former United States citizens who relinquished their nationality

This is a list of notable former United States citizens who voluntarily relinquished their nationality.

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List of live-action short subject series by Hollywood studios

This is a list of short subject film series released by Hollywood studios.

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List of Punahou School alumni

Shown below is a list of notable graduates, students who attended, and former faculty of Punahou School.

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List of Rhodes Scholars

A list of Rhodes Scholars, covering notable people who are Rhodes Scholarship recipients, sorted by year and surname.

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List of U.S. executive branch czars

In the United States, the informal political term "czar" or "tsar" is employed in media and popular usage to refer to high-level officials who oversee a particular policy.

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Little Tokyo, U.S.A.

Little Tokyo, U.S.A. is a 1942 American film.

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Loose lips sink ships

Loose lips sink ships is an American English idiom meaning "beware of unguarded talk".

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Louise Rosenblatt

Louise Michelle Rosenblatt (23 August 1904 in Atlantic City, New Jersey – 8 February 2005 in Arlington, Virginia) was an American university professor.

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Louise Rosskam

Louise Rosskam (born Louise Rosenbaum) (March 27, 1910 – April 1, 2003) was a photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Standard Oil Company during the mid-20th century.

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Luigi Sturzo

Luigi Sturzo (26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and prominent politician.

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Maida Springer Kemp

Maida Springer Kemp (May 12, 1910 - March 29, 2005) was an American labor organizer who worked extensively in Africa for the AFL-CIO.

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Malcolm Cowley

Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic.

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Manpower (1942 film)

Manpower was a short propaganda film produced by the US Office of War Information in 1942.

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Marion K. Sanders

Marion Klein Sanders (14 August 1905, Lawrence, Long Island, New York – 16 September 1977, New York, New York) was an American journalist, editor, and author.

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Marjory Collins

Marjory Collins (1912–1985) was an American photojournalist.

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Martin Ebon

Martin Ebon (May 27, 1917 – February 11, 2006) was a German American author of non-fiction books from the paranormal to politics.

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Mary Lee Settle

Mary Lee Settle was an American writer.

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Men of the Sky (1942 film)

Men of the Sky is a 1942 American Technicolor short propaganda film, directed by B. Reeves Eason.

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Milburn Stone

Hugh Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American actor, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS Western series Gunsmoke.

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Milton S. Eisenhower

Milton Stover Eisenhower (September 15, 1899 – May 2, 1985) was an American educational administrator.

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Mission Accomplished (film)

Mission Accomplished was a short 1943 propaganda film produced by the United States Office of War Information about the B-17 Flying Fortress.

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Mission to Moscow

Mission to Moscow is a 1943 film directed by Michael Curtiz, based on the 1941 book by the former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies.

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Molina and Johnson

Molina and Johnson is a collaborative album recorded by American songwriters Jason Molina and Will Johnson.

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Morale Operations Branch

Morale Operations was a branch of the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.

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Mrs. Miniver (character)

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Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of science fiction and alternate history literature.

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My Japan

My Japan is a 1945 American anti-Japanese propaganda short film produced to spur sale of American war bonds.

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Mythology and legacy of Benjamin Banneker

According to accounts that began to appear during the 1960s or earlier, a substantial mythology exaggerating Benjamin Banneker's accomplishments has developed during the two centuries that have elapsed since he lived (1731-1806).

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Natasha Borovsky

Natasha Borovsky (August 5, 1924 – May 31, 2012) was a Russian American poet and novelist.

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Negro Colleges in War Time

Negro Colleges in War Time is a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1943.

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News

News is information about current events.

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Norman Rose

Norman Rose (June 23, 1917 – November 12, 2004) was an American actor, film narrator and radio announcer whose velvety baritone was often called "the Voice of God" by colleagues.

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Office for Emergency Management

The Office for Emergency Management (OEM) was an office within the Executive Office of the United States President.

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Office of the Coordinator of Information

The Office of the Coordinator of Information was an intelligence and propaganda agency of the United States Government, founded on July 11, 1941, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, prior to U.S. involvement in the Second World War.

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Office of War Mobilization

The Office of War Mobilization (OWM) was an independent agency of the United States government formed during World War II to coordinate all government agencies involved in the war effort.

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Oscar Dystel

Oscar Dystel (October 31, 1912 – May 28, 2014) was an American publisher and paperback books pioneer whose firm Bantam Books published bestselling paperback editions of Catcher in the Rye, Jaws and Ragtime among many others.

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Our Enemy — The Japanese

Our Enemy—The Japanese is a 1943 short film produced by the US Navy and Office of War Information to provide background knowledge about the wartime foe.

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Owen Lattimore

Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American author, educator, and influential scholar of China and Central Asia, especially Mongolia.

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Pare Lorentz

Pare Lorentz (December 11, 1905 – March 4, 1992) was an American filmmaker known for his movies about the New Deal.

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Passport to Suez

Passport to Suez (1943; also known as A Night of Adventure and The Clock Strikes Twelve) is the 20th film featuring the Lone Wolf character.

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Pat Frank

Pat Frank (May 5, 1908 – October 12, 1964) was the pen name of the American writer, newspaperman, and government consultant Harry Hart Frank.

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Paul Stewart (actor)

Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television.

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Peter Rhodes

Peter Christopher Rhodes was an American journalist born in Manila.

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Peter Sekaer

Peter Sekaer, Trailers for defense workers at Vultee Aircraft Plant. Nashville, Tennessee, 1941 Peter Sekaer (born Peter Ingemann Sekjær 1901 – July 14, 1950) was a Danish-American photographer and artist.

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Phi Delta Theta

Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ), commonly known as Phi Delt, is an international social fraternity founded at Miami University in 1848 and headquartered in Oxford, Ohio.

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Philip Dunne (writer)

Philip Ives Dunne (February 11, 1908 – June 2, 1992) was a Hollywood screenwriter, film director and producer, who worked prolifically from 1932 until 1965.

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Political Warfare Executive

During World War II, the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) was a British clandestine body created to produce and disseminate both white and black propaganda, with the aim of damaging enemy morale and sustaining the morale of the Occupied countries.

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Politics of the United States during World War II

The United States maintained its Representative Democracy government structure throughout World War II.

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Polly Shackleton

Polly Ehrlich Shackleton (c. 1910 – July 14, 1997) was a Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. She was elected as one of the original members of the Council of the District of Columbia in 1974 when D.C. gained home rule.

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Potsdam Declaration

The Potsdam Declaration or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II.

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Prelude to War

Prelude to War is the first film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Office of War Information (OWI) and George C. Marshall.

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Princess O'Rourke

Princess O'Rourke is a 1943 romantic comedy film.

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Project Troy

Project Troy was a research study of psychological warfare undertaken for the Department of State by a group of scholars including physicists, historians and psychologists from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and RAND Corporation in the fall of 1950.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

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Propaganda in Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II

Propaganda in imperial Japan, in the period just before and during World War II, was designed to assist the ruling government of Japan during that time.

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Propaganda in the United States

Propaganda in the United States is spread by both government and media entities.

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Prostitution in Germany

Prostitution in Germany is legal, as are all aspects of the sex industry, including brothels, advertisement, and job offers through HR companies.

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Prunella Clough

Prunella Clough (11 November 1919 – 26 December 1999) was a prominent British artist.

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Psychological Operations (United States)

Psychological operations (PSYOP) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals.

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Psychological Warfare Division

The Psychological Warfare Division of SHAEF (PWD/SHAEF) was a joint Anglo-American organization set-up in World War II tasked with conducting principally 'white' tactical psychological warfare against German troops in Northwest Europe during and after D-Day.

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Public diplomacy of the United States

Public diplomacy is that "form of international Political Advocacy in which the civilians of one country use legitimate means to reach out to the civilians of another country in order to gain popular support for negotiations occurring through diplomatic channels.".

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R. V. C. Bodley

Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, MC (3 March 1892 – 26 May 1970) was a British Army officer, author and journalist.

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Rachel Bespaloff

Rachel Bespaloff (1895-1949) was a Ukrainian-French philosopher.

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Radio 1212

Radio 1212 or Nachtsender 1212 was a black propaganda radio station operated from 1944 to 1945 by the Psychological Warfare Branch of the US Office of War Information (OWI) under the direction of CBS radio chief William S. Paley, who was based in London.

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Radio propaganda

Radio propaganda is propaganda aimed at influencing attitudes towards a certain cause or position, delivered through radio broadcast.

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Ralph J. Gleason

Ralph Joseph Gleason (March 1, 1917 – June 3, 1975) was an American jazz and popular music critic.

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Ralph Rosenblum

Ralph Rosenblum (October 13, 1925 – September 6, 1995) was an American film editor who worked extensively with the directors Sidney Lumet and Woody Allen.

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Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter

Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter is a 1943 educational dramatic short produced by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

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Reed Harris

Reed Harris (November 5, 1909 – October 15, 1982) was an American writer, publisher, and U.S. government official.

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Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Resisting Enemy Interrogation is a 1944 United States Army docudrama training film, directed by Robert B. Sinclair and written by Harold Medford and Owen Crump.

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Reward Unlimited

Reward Unlimited is a short film produced in 1944 by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, for the United States Public Health Service, dramatizing the need for volunteer military nurses for the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II.

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Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.

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Richard J. Burke

Richard J. Burke (October 9, 1915 – November 4, 1999) was an Irish-American journalist, poet and playwright.

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Richard Plant (writer)

Richard Plant (July 22, 1910 – March 3, 1998) was a gay Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany first to Switzerland and then to the U.S. who became a professor at the City University of New York, where he taught German language and literature from 1947 to 1973.

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Robert E. Sherwood

Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.

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Robert Lowie

Robert Harry Lowie (born Robert Heinrich Löwe; June 12, 1883 – September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist.

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Robert Riskin

Robert Riskin (March 30, 1897 – September 20, 1955)"Robert Riskin, Who Won 'Oscar' For 'It Happened Ohe Night,' Dies." New York Times. September 22, 1955.

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Robert Sabatino Lopez

Robert Sabatino Lopez (October 8, 1910 – July 6, 1986), also known as Robert S. Lopez, was a Jewish-Italian-American historian of medieval European economic history.

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Sally Lilienthal

Sally Ann Lilienthal (March 19, 1919 – October 24, 2006), née Lowengart, was an American nuclear disarmament activist who founded the Ploughshares Fund in 1981 during the Cold War in the belief that the threat of nuclear war overshadowed everything else.

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Scrap the Japs

Scrap the Japs is an American anti-Japanese cartoon with the popular character Popeye as protagonist.

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Selznick International Pictures

Selznick International Pictures was a Hollywood motion picture studio created by David O. Selznick in 1935, and dissolved in 1943.

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September 1945

The following events occurred in September 1945.

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Sidney Meyers

Sidney Meyers (March 9, 1906 – December 4, 1969), also known by the pen name Robert Stebbins was an American film director and editor.

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Sidney Slon

Sidney Slon (May 27, 1910 in Chicago – January 21, 1995) was an American radio and television writer and actor.

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Sigmund Skard

Sigmund Skard (31 July 1903 – 26 May 1995) was a Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of literature.

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Smith–Mundt Act

The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (Public Law 80-402), popularly called the Smith–Mundt Act, is the basic legislative authorization for propaganda activities conducted by the U.S. Department of State, sometimes called "public diplomacy".

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Society of Red Tape Cutters

The Society of Red Tape Cutters was a series of small articles published by newspapers during World War II to give recognition to military and political figures for keeping bureaucracy from hindering the war effort.

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SS George Washington Carver

SS George Washington Carver was a Liberty ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II.

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Stanton Griffis

Stanton Griffis (May 2, 1887 – August 29, 1974) was an American businessman and diplomat.

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Suggestion Box

Suggestion Box is a short propaganda film produced in 1943 by the Office of War Information.

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Swedes in America

Swedes in America is a 1943 American short documentary film directed by Irving Lerner and produced by the Overseas Motion Picture Bureau of the United States Office of War Information.

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Tambi Larsen

Tambi Larsen (11 September 1914 – 24 March 2001) was a Dane born in Bangalore, India.

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Target-Invisible

Target-Invisible is a 1945 documentary short film produced by the First Motion Picture Unit after World War II.

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Ted Berry

Theodore M. Berry (November 5, 1905 – October 15, 2000), an American politician of the Charter Party of Cincinnati, Ohio, was the first African-American mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Ted Patrick (editor)

Edwin Hill "Ted" Patrick (1901-1962) was the key American editor for ''Holiday Magazine'', an influential travel and literary magazine published by the Curtis Publishing Company.

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Ted Poston

Ted Poston (July 4, 1906 – January 11, 1974) was an American journalist and author.

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Tennessee Johnson

Tennessee Johnson is a 1942 American film about Andrew Johnson, the 17th president of the United States, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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Than E

Ma Than E Fend (မသန်းအေး, also known by her baptismal name Dora) was a prominent Burmese singer in the early 20th century, known by her stage name Bilat Pyan Than, and an international civil servant who spent a long career in the United Nations.

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That Justice Be Done

That Justice Be Done was a one-reel American propaganda film directed by George Stevens and made in 1945 by the Office of War Information for the US Chief of Counsel at Nuremberg and the War Crimes Office of the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

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The Army Hour

The Army Hour was a radio news program in the United States, broadcast on NBC April 5, 1942-Nov.

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The Autobiography of a 'Jeep'

The Autobiography of a 'Jeep is a 1943 propaganda film produced by the US Office of War Information.

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The Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain was the fourth of Frank Capra's Why We Fight series of seven propaganda films, which made the case for fighting and winning the Second World War.

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The Battle of China

The Battle of China (1944) was the sixth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series.

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The Battle of Russia

The Battle of Russia (1943) is the fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight documentary series, and the longest film of the series, consisting of two parts.

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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is a 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict.

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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Mad Men)

"The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series Mad Men, and the 44th overall episode of the series.

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The Desert Song (1943 film)

The Desert Song is a 1943 American musical film.

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The Fight for the Sky

The Fight for the Sky is a short propaganda film commissioned by the US government to highlight the victories of the Allied air forces over Europe prior to the Normandy invasion.

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The Nazis Strike

The Nazis Strike was the second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series.

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The Phantom

The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936, now primarily published internationally by Frew Publications.

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The Price of Victory

The Price of Victory is a 1942 short propaganda film produced by Paramount Pictures and the U.S. Office of War Information.

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The Purple Heart

The Purple Heart is a 1944 American war film directed by Lewis Milestone.

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The Rear Gunner

The Rear Gunner is a 1943 American short instructional film, directed by Ray Enright and produced by Warner Brothers.

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The Stilwell Road (film)

The Stilwell Road is a propaganda film produced by the American Office of War Information and the British and Indian film units in 1945 detailing the creation of the Ledo Road, also known as the Stilwell Road after the U.S. General Joseph Stilwell.

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The Testament of Freedom

The Testament of Freedom is a four-movement work for men's chorus and piano composed in 1943 by Randall Thompson.

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The Town (1945 film)

The Town is a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1943.

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The True Glory

The True Glory (1945) is a co-production of the US Office of War Information and the British Ministry of Information, documenting the victory on the Western Front, from Normandy to the collapse of the Third Reich.

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The World at War (film)

The World at War is a 1942 documentary film produced by the Office of War Information.

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Theodore Kaghan

Theodore Kaghan (July 24, 1912 – August 9, 1989) was an American civil servant and journalist.

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Theodore Tinsley

Theodore A. Tinsley (October 27, 1894 – March 3, 1979) was an American author who primarily wrote mystery stories.

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This I Believe

This I Believe is a five-minute CBS Radio Network program, originally hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow from 1951 to 1955.

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Thomas M. Messer

Thomas Maria Messer (February 9, 1920 – May 15, 2013) was the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, for 27 years, a longer tenure than any of the city's major arts institutions' directors.

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Thrill of a Romance

Thrill of a Romance (also known as Thrill of a New Romance) is an American romance film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945, starring Van Johnson, Esther Williams and Carleton G. Young, with musical performances by opera singer Lauritz Melchior.

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Thumbs Up (film)

Thumbs Up is a 1943 American musical drama film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Brenda Joyce, Richard Fraser and Elsa Lanchester.

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Timeline of World War II (1942)

This is a timeline of events that occurred during World War II in 1942.

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Tom Steed

Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Steed (March 2, 1904 – June 8, 1983) was an American politician and a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma.

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Troop Train

Troop Train was a 1943 short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information.

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Tuesday in November

Tuesday in November was a propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election produced by the Office of War information for overseas distribution.

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U.S. Government Informational Comics

Prior to Pearl Harbor and the United States becoming involved in World War II, private comic book publishers and later government comic book publications increased and gained popularity among the foreign and domestic populations and Allied forces.

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United States Army Airborne School

The United States Army Airborne School – widely known as Jump School – conducts the basic paratrooper (military parachutist) training for the United States armed forces.

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United States home front during World War II

The home front of the United States in World War II supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls.

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United States propaganda comics

United States propaganda comics are comic books that have been published by various parts of the United States government over time as propaganda tools in various international conflicts.

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United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI), stood up in March 1941 as the "Truman Committee," is the oldest subcommittee of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (formerly the Committee on Government Operations).

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United States Strategic Communication

According to the author Christopher Paul (RAND),Strategic Communication is the “coordinated actions, messages, images, and other forms of signaling or engagement intended to inform, influence, or persuade selected audiences in support of national objectives.” There is often debate and discussion concerning what makes strategic communication.

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Vanguard Films

Vanguard Films, Inc. was an American film production company, established by producer David O. Selznick in 1943, after the dissolution of Selznick International Pictures.

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Venona project

The Venona project was a counterintelligence program initiated by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service (later the National Security Agency) that ran from February 1, 1943 until October 1, 1980.

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Victor Weybright

Victor Weybright (1903-1978) was an American writer and publisher.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcast source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting.

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Voice of America Bethany Relay Station

The Voice of America's Bethany Relay Station was located in Butler County, Ohio's Union Township about 25 miles (40 km) north of Cincinnati, adjacent to the transmitter site of WLW.

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W. A. Swanberg

William Andrew Swanberg (November 23, 1907 in St. Paul, Minnesota – September 17, 1992 in Southbury, Connecticut) was an American biographer.

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WAEPA

Worldwide Assurance for Employees of Public Agencies, widely known by its abbreviated name WAEPA, is a United States' nonprofit 501(c)(9) VEBA association headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, that provides life insurance and financial service benefits to federal civilian employees.

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Waldo Salt

Waldo Miller Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter, winner of Academy Awards for both Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.

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War Powers Act of 1941

The War Powers Act of 1941, also known as the First War Powers Act, was an American emergency law that increased Federal power during World War II.

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We Can Do It!

"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost worker morale.

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Wilbur Schramm

Wilbur Lang Schramm (August 5, 1907 – December 27, 1987), was a scholar and "authority on mass communications".

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William D. Alexander

William D. Alexander (1916 – November 19, 1991) was an African-American film producer.

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William Golden (graphic designer)

William Golden (March 31, 1911 – October 23, 1959) was an American graphic designer.

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William H. Hinton

William Howard Hinton (February 2, 1919 – May 15, 2004) was an American farmer and writer.

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William Harlan Hale

William Harlan Hale (1910 – July 1974) was an American writer and journalist, and editor.

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William L. Holland

William Lancelot Holland (28 December 1907 – 8 May 2008) worked with the Institute of Pacific Relations from 1928 until 1960 as Research Secretary; American IPR Executive Secretary and editor of its periodical, Far Eastern Survey; IPR Secretary-General and editor of its journal, Pacific Affairs.

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William R. Tyler

William Royall Tyler (October 17, 1910 – November 16, 2003) was a United States diplomat.

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William S. Paley

William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990) was the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States.

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William Schuman

William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator.

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William Stephenson

Sir William Samuel Stephenson, CC, MC, DFC (23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British Security Coordination (BSC) for the entire western hemisphere during World War II.

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Wings Up

Wings Up (aka Sustineo Alas in its release for the United States Army) is a short propaganda film produced during World War II, highlighting the role of the United States Army Air Forces Officer Candidate School.

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World at War

World at War can refer to.

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Writers' War Board

The Writers' War Board was the main domestic propaganda organization in the United States during World War II.

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Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner (born Yuliy Borisovich Briner, Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985)Record of Yul Brynner, #108-18-2984.

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15th Academy Awards

The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles honoring the films of 1942.

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16th Academy Awards

The 16th Academy Awards, in 1944, was the first Oscar ceremony held at a large public venue, Grauman's Chinese Theatre.

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17th Academy Awards

The 17th Academy Awards marked the first time the complete awards ceremony was broadcast nationally, on the Blue Network (ABC Radio).

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1942

Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

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1942 in the United States

Events from the year 1942 in the United States.

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1943

Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

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1943 in Brazil

Events in the year 1943 in Brazil.

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1943 in the United States

Events from the year 1943 in the United States.

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490th Missile Squadron

The 490th Missile Squadron is a United States Air Force unit.

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93d Air Refueling Squadron

The 93d Air Refueling Squadron is part of the 92d Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_War_Information

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