Government Officers inc. Col. Donovan in Washington, 1942

Government Officers inc. Col. Donovan in Washington, 1942 EXT temporary government building housing Information Office, Washington - sign ‘US Information’; men & women through main entrance; reverse angle of same from lobby w/ street traffic seen. INT lobby w/ ‘Buy War Savings Bonds & Stamps Now’ banner; MS Lowell Mellet talking to Phil Hamblet Director & Asst. Director, Bureau of Information in lobby - exchange documents & Hamblet off; CU Lowell Mellet. 00:48:40 People at information desk; CU sign ‘Services for men of the armed forces, war workers, visitors & DC residents’. (00:49:2?) Government publications desk - men buy books; CU document ‘Trade and Professional Associations of the United States’. CU leaflet ‘Work Will Win: The Story of Manpower’. 00:50:31 INT Office of War Information in Social Security building - Elmer Davis, Director, and Mr Milton Eisenhower, Deputy Director, at desk; CU Davis; CU Eisenhower; CU sign ‘719 - Mr Davis - Mr Eisenhower’. ext. 515 w/ guards & pedestrians. 00:51:44 EXT NYC Entrance to Social Security building. New York City: Elmer Davis out of building towards camera; talks to doorman as cameramen film w/ Eymo & other hand-held cameras. Tips hat. 22:52:54 INT Administrative building of Coordinator of Information, Washington - MS Colonel ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, Coordinator of Information, seen through doorway looking at papers - world maps on wall, w/ secretary; CU Donovan. VS informal grouping R-L: Col. K. Preston Goodfellow, Col. Donovan, Edward Stanley, Col. G. Edward Buxton, Asst. Coordinator of Information & Col. William Eddy. MCU Buxton, Stanley and Eddy; CU Goodfellow and Donovan; CU Donovan. WWII. US Homefront. Bureaucrats. Civil Servants.