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Harry Truman: “Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April…”

On the recordMarch 24, 1948
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April 1948 as Cancer Control Month; and I invite the Governors of the several States and the Territories and possessions of the United States to issue similar proclamations.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2774—Cancer Control Month, 1948

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