The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Agency

Office of War Information, 1942-1945

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • INF-2.2: Executive Order 9182 of 13 June 1942 created the Office of War Information to run information programs "at home and abroad," and Congress on 12 July 1943 limited its Domestic Operations Branch to $2,750,000 of $33,222,504 and barred it from publishing literature for distribution to the public within the United States.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 998 13 June 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Executive Order 9182, Consolidating Certain War Information Functions Into an Office of War Information
  • Exhibit 999 12 July 1943. U.S. Congress: National War Agencies Appropriation Act, 1944, ch. 228, 57 Stat. 494 (Office of War Information, 57 Stat. 531-532)