Legislation

President Harry S. Truman (left) signs Terminal Leave Bill while Representative Edith Nourse Rogers looks on.

President Harry S. Truman signs Congressional Streamline Bill. Also present are (from left to right): Representative Everett M. Dirksen, Representative A. S. Mike Monroney, Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., Representative E. E. Cox, and Senator Richard B. Russell.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) hands a pen to General Omar N. Bradley after signing the G.I. Furlough Pay Bill. A crowd of unidentified men is in the background.

President Harry S. Truman signs the British Loan Agreement in the presence of the Rt. Honorable Lord Inverchapel, British Ambassador to the United States and several others. From left to right: unidentified, Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Secretary of State James Byrnes, Lord Inverchapel, Sam Rayburn, and unidentified (with Truman in the foreground).

President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs Flood Control and Navigation Bills. With him are(standing, from left to right): Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, Representative John E. Rankin, and Senator Warren G. Magnuson.

President Harry S. Truman (seated) holds up the OPA price control bill at his desk. Paul Porter (left) and a group of unidentified OPA Regional Directors are also present.

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.

President Harry S. Truman signing the National Housing Act of 1949. Looking on, from left to right, are: Senator Burnet Maybank, Senator Ralph Flanders, Senator John Sparkman, and Housing Administrator Raymond Foley.

President Harry S. Truman signing the Armed Forces Unification Bill with guests. From left to right, Senator Richard B. Russell, unidentified admiral, General Omar Nelson Bradley, Louis A. Johnson, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, Senator Styles Bridges, unidentified male, unidentified male, Fred M. Vinson, Stuart Symington, Stephen T. Early, and John W. Snyder.

Memories of Wage Hearings composite photo postcard. Inscribed on the back: "With my compliments and best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Chas. McKay".