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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 7, 1946

His ability, his industry and his untiring devotion to duty were of incalculable benefit to the war effort of the Nation.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 7, 1946

In the truest sense, he personifies the close cooperation, the untiring energy, and the efficient methods which enabled the Nation's railroads to achieve their outstanding and widely acclaimed success.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 7, 1946

Mr. Pelley has been an unfailing source of wise counsel and advice to the military establishment on all phases of railroad transportation.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 5, 1946

To raise that standard should be, and is, the constant aim of your Government and the underlying basis of its policies.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 5, 1946

If men and nations would but live by the precepts of the ancient prophets and the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, problems which now seem so difficult would soon disappear.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 5, 1946

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is rounded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only thing that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 5, 1946

They look to us for help--not to fight an enemy, nor help for luxuries and extravagances--but just help to keep themselves alive, help in the form of food and clothing, the barest necessities of life.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 5, 1946

All mankind now stands in the doorway to destruction--or upon the threshold of the greatest age in history.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 5, 1946

In short, prove yourselves worthy of the liberty and dignity which you have preserved on this earth, by helping those less fortunate who have been starved by the dictators for so many long years and who still starve even in liberation.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 5, 1946

If the civilized world as we know it today is to survive, the gigantic power which man has acquired through atomic energy must be matched by spiritual strength of greater magnitude.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 3, 1946

Veterans shall accompany their applications with certified copies of their certificates of discharge, or other satisfactory evidence of their military or naval service.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 3, 1946

The public lands affected by this order shall be subject to (1) application under the homestead or the desert land laws, or the small-tract act of June 1, 1938...

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 3, 1946

The term 'fissionable materials' as used in this order means (a) all deposits from which the substances known as thorium, uranium (including uranium enriched as to one of its isotopes), and elements higher than uranium in the periodic…

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 3, 1946

Executive Order No. 9613 of September 13, 1945, entitled 'Withdrawing and Reserving for the Use of the United States Lands Containing Radio-active Mineral Substances' is hereby revoked.

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Harry Truman
@harrytruman· Democratic · MO· Mar 3, 1946

By virtue of the authority vested in me as the President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

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