Speech of Senator Harry S. Truman to Members of the Maryland Motor Truck Association at Baltimore, Maryland
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OCR Page 1 of 8Address of Senator Harry S. Truman of
Missouri to Members of the Maryland Motor
Truck Association, Baltimore, Maryland, March
25, 1939, at 7:30 P. M.
FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
Members of the Maryland Motor Truck Association:
I suppose everyone here knows that this is a day of
appeasement. Great nations, and some not so great, ask
to be appeased. Some States in our own country want
their share of appeasement. Many industries seem to be
clamoring for appeasement. Just now the majority of all
American industry is anxiously looking for some form of
tax appeasement. Appeasement seems to be in the air.
It is therefore perfectly natural that our good
friends, the railroad managers and executives, should be
asking for their share of appeasement, too. They have
written their ideas into a Bill which recently has been
introduced in the House, and is now before Congress.
Other transportation bills have been introduced, and still
others probably will be. These will come at an early
date for consideration before the Senate Committee of
which I am a member.
I am not an appeaser. In considering transportation
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legislation I want to assure you gentlemen that I
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