Charities

President Harry S. Truman (left) signs S. 591, the Red Cross Reorganization Bill, at his desk in the Oval Office as Basil O'Connor (center), Chairman of the American Red Cross, and Howard Bonham (right), American Red Cross public relations director, look on.

First Lady Bess Truman (second from left) dropping a coin in a bottle marked "Mo." as part of a public appearance in behalf of the March of Dimes, while Margaret Truman (second from right) and two unidentified men look on.

First Lady Bess Truman (second from left) and Margaret Truman (second from right) preparing to drop coins in a bottle marked "Mo." as part of a public appearance in behalf of the March of Dimes charity, while two unidentified men look on.

Margaret Truman (second from right) dropping a coin in a bottle marked "Mo." as part of a public appearance in behalf of the March of Dimes, while First Lady Bess Truman (second from left) and two unidentified men look on.

Margaret Truman (second from right) dropping a coin in a bottle marked "Mo." as part of a public appearance in behalf of the March of Dimes, while Bess Truman (second from left) and two unidentified men look on.

Margaret Truman dropping a coin in a bottle held by a young boy as part of a public appearance in behalf of the March of Dimes, while First Lady Bess Truman (second from left) and an unidentified man look on.

First Lady Bess Truman (standing, second from left) and Margaret Truman (standing, third from left), with unidentified persons, making a public appearance in behalf of the March of Dimes charity.

Soup line at the northeast corner of 6th and Delaware, in Kansas City, Missouri. From: Kansas City Chamber of Commerce. Please credit Kansas City Chamber of Commerce.

Unidentified people stand outside a TWA airplane receiving packages for Margaret Truman's food relief program. From: A leather bound album of ten 8 x 10 photos showing Margaret Truman participating in a brief program in which a token shipment of relief food was placed aboard a TWA Constellation bound for Paris, France.

President Harry S. Truman surrounded by March of Dimes Children. From left to right: Wanda Wiley, Linda Brown, President Truman, Terry Tulles, Nancy Drury, and Donald Anderson. Wanda Wiley is the 1950 March of Dimes poster child; the other children are poster children from previous campaigns.