Food

Former President Herbert Hoover, shown here leaving the White House, announced today he had agreed at President Truman's request to go to Germany and make a study of food conditions with a view toward relieving "some of the burden on the American taxpayers." From: Beth Gore

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on the aid to Europe food program with Secretary of Commerce W. Averill Harriman on the stand. Secretary Harriman is pictured here, center, with Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Michigan, left and Senator Tom Connally, Texas, right. From: Beth Gore

Dr. Dennis A. Fitzgerald, who has been named Secretary-General of the International Emergency Food Council. Dr. Fitzgerald is a career man in agriculture and is Department Director of Allocations and Requirements. From: Beth Gore.

Formal portrait of Dennis A. Fitzgerald of the Department of Agriculture, whose appointment as head of the Food Division of the Marshall Plan was announced by Paul G. Hoffman today. From: Beth Gore.

Dennis A. Fitzgerald of the Department of Agriculture, was appointed head of the Food Division of the Marshall Plan by Paul G. Hoffman. From: Beth Gore

A photograph of Viscount Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Melbourne, Australia, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. From: Beth Gore.

Jesse J. Knott holding a Virginia ham which he sent as a Christmas gift to former President Harry S. Truman. The photo, which appeared in the (Luray, Va.) Page News and Courier, was autographed (copy) as follows: Seasons Greetings To: Hon. Harry S. Truman, Dec. 25, 1955, From your loyal friend - Jesse J. Knott From: Jesse J. Knott.