Daily Appointments of Harry S. Truman
Thursday, February 27, 1947
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| (Mr. Augustus Vincent Tack--artist) | |
| The Secretary of State [George C. Marshall] The Under Secretary of State Senator Tom Connally, Texas; Senator Styles Bridges Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan Speaker Joseph W. Martin, Jr. Congressman Charles A. Eaton, New Jersey Congressman Sol Bloom, New York Congressman Sam Rayburn, Texas (The President asked them to come in) | |
| Senator Arthur V. Watkins, Utah Mr. David J. Wilson (Requested this through Mr. Leslie Biffle) | |
| Lt. General Ira C. Eaker and the members of the Rescue Ship which flew to Greenland and brought off the fliers: they are: First Lieutenant Bobby Joe Cavnar, Pilot First Lieutenant Fred Sporer, Co-pilot First Lieutenant Wm. A. Seward, Jr., Navigator Technical Sgt. Walter L. Hustus, Flight Engineer Technical Sgt. John H. Schuffert, Radio Operator Pvt.1st Class Charles J. Erchak, Second Flight Captain Herbert G. Dorsey (not a member of the crew) | |
| Miss Katherine C. Blackburn (Arranged by Mr. Charles Ross) | |
| Honorable James Webb, Director, Bureau of the Budget (Phoned Mr. Matthew Connelly for this appointment) | |
| (Mr. and Mrs. Alden Hatch) (Wrote biography of President Roosevelt, published last month. Liberty Magazine ran part of this book and had commissioned Mr. Hatch to do a biographical feature about the President in same informal, friendly vein. Mr. Hatch asked to bring Mrs. Hatch as she is co-author. Off record) | |
| The President received a group from the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service, as follows: Mr. William L. Batt, Member of Advisory Committee Dr. Joseph P. Chamberlain, Chairman, American Council Mr. Cornelius Kruse, American Friends Service Committee Mr. Harold Linder, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Mr. Francis P. Matthews, War Relief Services, National Catholic Welfare Conference Dr. Leslie B. Moss, Church World Service, Inc. Mr. Arthur C. Ringland, Executive Director of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid Mr. Spyros Skouras, Greek War Relief Association, Inc. (Mr. Ringland, the Director, wrote Mr. Niles that Mr. Charles P. Taft, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid felt a delegation of the American Council should meet with the President and inform him of the work of the member agencies in the field of voluntary relief abroad. They furnished us with their statement to the President and a suggested statement for the President to make to them.) | |
| [Public Papers: Remarks to Representatives of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service] | |
| The President presented the Harmon Trophy to Mr. Juan T. Trippe. The following were present: General Carl Spaatz, Chief of the Army Air Forces Rear Admiral H. B. Sallada, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy Honorable Wm. A. M. Burden, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Honorable John L. Sullivan, Under Secretary of the Navy Brig. General Turner A. Sims, Aide to Asst. Secy. Symington Colonel J. Carroll Cone; Hon. James M. Landis Lt. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg Major S. de Seversky Mrs. Juan Trippe; Mr. William P. McEvoy Mr. Harold Bixby, V. P., Pan American Airlines Colonel Charles W. Kerwood Mr. Samuel F. Pryor, Assistant to Mr. Trippe | |
| H.E. Senor Don Julio Ortega Frier, The Ambassador of the Dominican Republic (Newly appointed) | |
| (Lunch) | |
| Congressman John Taber, New York (His office phoned late yesterday to say he could not make the ten o'clock appointment with the Secretary of State [George C. Marshall], et al., but would come at this time.) | |
| Honorable Herbert Hoover Dr. Julius Klein (To report on recent trip abroad to make food survey) |