CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Landis Leaves

Note on the shifting emphasis of World War II: Cadaverous James McCauley Landis, called in to rescue the Office of Civilian Defense from its dancer and bowling coordinator dog days two months after Pearl Harbor, is resigning soon to go to Cairo as a member of the British-American board on Middle East supplies.

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