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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

President Harry S. Truman with the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training

Chairman Karl T. Compton (second from left) gives President Harry S. Truman (seated) the Report of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training at the White House as other members of the commission look on. L to R: (standing) The Rev. Edmund Walsh, Vice-President of Georgetown Univ. in Washington; Chairman Compton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Judge Samuel Rosenman, former special counsel to the President; Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, Industrial Relations Consultant; Truman K. Gibson, Jr., Lawyer; and Dr. Daniel Poling, editor of Christian Herald.

Harry S. Truman and friends in his haberdashery store, ca. 1920

Harry S. Truman as a young man in the clothing store he and Eddie Jacobson owned. The name of the store was the Truman and Jacobson Haberdashery, located at l2th and Baltimore (104 West 12th) Kansas City, Missouri The store was opened in l919 and it failed in 1921. L to R: Harry Truman, Francis Berry, Mike Flynn, and Kelsey Cravens. This photograph was donated from the files of the Kansas City Star, but they did not originate the photograph.

President Truman with Hoover Commission members

First meeting of the Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of Government, popularly known as the Hoover Commission. Front Row, left to right: George H. Mead, former President Herbert Hoover, President Harry S. Truman, Joseph P. Kennedy, and Senator John L. McClellan. Back Row, left to right: Clarence Brown, James V. Forrestal, Arthur Flemming, Dean Acheson, James Rowe, and Representative Carter Manasco. Same as 59-1365-1.