Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman,President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing…

The transfer effected by the Plan will eliminate uncertainty as to the Secretary's control over the administration of the Wage and Hour Division and will enable him to tie it into the Department more effectively.

I have called the second President's Highway Safety Conference to convene in Washington on June 18, 19, and 20.

I am asking the second conference to fix as its minimum goal the saving of 10,000 lives this year.

The Fair Labor Standards Bill was drafted on the assumption that the Wage and Hour Division would be made an independent establishment.

Since V-J Day this same authority has been used extensively in demobilizing war agencies and reconverting the governmental structure to peacetime needs.

The editors and publishers can perform no higher service than to guide their readers, those who walk as well as those who ride, to a complete understanding of the cost of traffic accidents in lives and injuries, and show them how simple it…

It is traditional in America for the people to look to the daily and weekly press not only as their source of information about current events but as their trusted guide in bettering the common welfare.

I am deeply interested in the continued development of the Department of Labor.

I AM HAPPY to learn of the splendid program the daily and weekly newspapers of the country have adopted for the summer months as their contribution to the effort all of us are making to reduce the shocking cost in lives and human injuries…

A fact that most of us overlooked, however, was that at the very same time many more persons were dying in traffic accidents on city streets and rural highways.

The provisions of this Plan are designed to maintain organizational arrangements worked out under authority of Title I of the First War Powers Act.

I have on several occasions recommended the creation of a single agency for the administration of housing programs.

Therein is the nub of the problem before us.

His eagerness to enhance the bonds of friendship between Mexico and the United States and his strong backing of the progressive and liberal foreign policy of his government have established a shining pattern of the spirit which is making…

In issuing this statement both Chiefs of State express their satisfaction with the great cordiality attained in the relations of the peoples they represent, and both, inspired by the ideals of Good Neighborliness and by mutual and full…

I have found, after investigation, that each reorganization contained in the Plan is necessary to accomplish one or more of the purposes set forth in section 2(a) of the Reorganization Act of 1945.

Executive Order No. 9 of January 17, 1873, as amended, prohibiting with certain exceptions Federal officers and employees from holding state, territorial, county, municipal, or other local offices, is hereby further amended so as to permit…