Hope, Clifford Ragsdale, 1893-1970

President Truman, seated, signed the National School Lunch Act, which authorizes the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assume half the expenses for school lunches in any state assuming the other half. Thus, for the first time, this program, which has run for 11 years on a year-to-year basis with no financial participation by the states, becomes a permanent part of the Department's activities. Standing left to right: Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture; Rep. Malcolm C. Tarver, Georgia, member of House Appropriations Committee; Sen. Richard B.

Luncheon at the Vanderberg Room, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Seated left to right: Housing and Home Finance Administrator Raymond M. Foley, Senator Frank Carlson, Governor Edward F. Arn, Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel, and Alfred E. Howse, assistant to director to Charles E. Wilson of the Office of Defense Mobilization. Standing from left to right: Representative Myron V. George; Representative Errett P. Scrivner; Representative Clifford R. Hope; and Representative Edward H. Rees (all of Kansas).