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Baseball Players Shangri-La

The film begins with 2 unidentified children and 1 adult showing fish they caught. Baseball is being played toward the end of the film, evidently at Shangri-La, (now Camp David) in Maryland, much of it too dark to see clearly. Note on film box said: “Baseball Players Shangra La.” Date unknown.

President Truman's Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Need for Government Operation of the Steel Mills

President Harry S. Truman's Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Need for Government Operation of the Steel Mills. Earlier that day the President had signed Executive Order 10340 "Directing the Secretary of Commerce to Take Possession of and Operate the Plants and facilities of Certain Steel Companies" (3 CFR, 1949-1953 Comp., p. 861). This order was ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court on June 2.