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Newsom, Herschel D. (Herschel David), 1905-1970

President Harry S. Truman and his National Advisory Board on Mobilization

President Truman met with his National Advisory Board on Mobilization, a policy group in which labor is participating. Front row L-R: D. W. Brooks, Georgia, President National Council of Farm Cooperatives; C. E. Wilson, Defense Mobilizer; President Harry S. Truman; Philip Murray, President of CIO; Walter P. Reuther, President of UAW-CIO. Second row: Samuel Abbot Smith, businessman of Chelsea, Mass.; George Meany, Secretary-Treasurer of AFL; William H. Davis, New York attorney; Otto A. Seyferth, President of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Claude A. Putnam, businessman of Keene, N.H.

President Truman Meets with Mobilization Committee of the NSRB

President Harry S. Truman (center, seated) is shown meeting with the Committee on Mobilization Policy of the National Security Resources Board (NSRB). Seated, left to right: Stuart Symington, Chairman, NSRB; President Truman; Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary of Defense on Manpower. Standing, left to right: William Green, President, American Federation of Labor; Albert J. Hayes, President of International Association of Machinists; Hershel Newsom, Master, Farmers National Grange; Frank P.

National Judging Committee For Veterans of Foreign Wars

The National Judging Committee for the Veterans of Foreign Wars "Big Search" to find the veteran to be awarded the free farm in the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project area of Washington State. From the left to right: Roger Fleming, National Legislative Director, American Farm Bureau; M. L. Wilson, National Director of Extension Work, Department of Agriculture; Herschel D. Newsom, Master of National Grange; Dr. William T. Spanton, Chief of Agricultural Education Service, Federal Security Agency; Dillard Lasseter, Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture.