Government Positions
Office of Strategic Services
1942 13 June President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a military order establishing the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and naming William J. Donovan as its Director.
Family
James Verner Scaife Jr
President of the Wm B. Scaife & Sons Company from 1934 until 1945
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brother
Richard Mellon Scaife
Pittsburgh philanthropist and reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune