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    "ocrText": "Minutes of Executive Committee Meeting\nCommittee for the Marshall Plan\nDecember 18, 1947\nPresent: Robert P. Patterson, Chairman\nAllen W. Dulles\nHerbert H. Lehman\nClark M. Eichelberger\nFrederick C. McKee\nAlger Hiss\nArthur W. Page\nDavid Dubinsky\nFrank Altschul\nJ. Lovestone\nMartin Kyne (Alternate for James B. Carey)\nStaff:\nJohn H. Ferguson, Harold Stein, Harold Oram, George Eberhardt,\nMrs. Ruth Lipper, Mrs. Betty Dowd, Mrs. Rachel Bell, Mrs. Pauline\nMandigo.\nThe meeting was called to order shortly after 2:30 o'clock by Judge Robert\nP. Patterson, Chairman, in the Empire Room, Biltmore Hotel.\nThe minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.\nCampaign Report:\nMr. Oram reported that the Committee had received to date approximately\n$70,000, an increase of $6,500 since the previous meeting.\nIt was announced that the Committee has had a letter from Eric Johnston,\nPresident of the Motion Picture Association of America, recommending that\na Committee be organized in Southern California with the suggestion that\nMr. Darryl Zanuck be asked to head such a Committee. Judge Patterson sta-\nted Mr. Johnston also had been in touch with him only yesterday on the\nsame matter.\nMr. Ferguson recommended that a resolution to this effect be drawn up and\nsent to Mr. Zanuck, and the Committee directed that such a resolution be\ndrafted expressing the Committee's desire to have Mr. Zanuck form such a\nCommittee and that it be sent to him.\nAt this point, Mr. Lehman reverted to the subject of contributions. He\nsaid that inasmuch as the guests left too quickly after the luncheon to-\nday, the contribution cards were not distributed properly. He felt that\na letter with another contribution card should be sent to everyone who had\nattended the luncheon, and it was agreed that this would be done.\nTreasurer's Report:\nMr. Ferguson reported that following Mr. Moore's suggestion, he had ar-\nranged for the bonding of everyone in the offices in New York and Washington.\nCommittee Statement on the Essentials of a Recovery Program:\nMr. Stein presented the draft of a statement to be issued after the Pres-\nident's message to Congress. There had been a delay, he explained, and\nHARRY TRUMAN NARA UBRAPA"
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