President Harry S. Truman's address before the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The President spoke at 4:30 p.m. at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington.
President Harry S. Truman's remarks to a group of Point Four agriculture trainees. The President spoke at 12:10 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House. In the course of his remarks he referred to Henry G. Bennett, Administrator of the Technical Cooperation Administration, Department of State, and former president of Oklahoma A. and M. College, and to Norris E. Dodd, Director General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Radio coverage of President Harry S. Truman's remarks from the speaker's platform near the train in Ottumwa, IA, 11:25 a.m. The recording includes an interview with 8-year-old Bobby Cowell from Queen City, Missouri who shares a birthday with President Truman and is on the platform waiting for the president. Next there is an interview with Paul Ream, who baked and decorated the president's enormous birthday cake, which was four tiers. The baker's union, Local 412, sponsored the baking of the cakes. Ream also baked an additional cake for Bobby Cowell.
President Harry S. Truman's Labor Day address in Des Moines at the Convention of the American Veterans of World War II. The President spoke at 4:15 p.m. at the State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, IA. His opening words "Mr. Commander" referred to Harold A. Keats of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., retiring National Commander of the American Veterans of World War II. The address was broadcast over all major radio networks.
Growing and marketing of pinto beans near Deming, New Mexico. Two trucks piled with sacks of beans say "Mimbres Valley Pinto Beans For Navahos Luna Co. Deming, N.M."