Daily Appointment Sheet for President Harry S. Truman

to TRUMAN Thursday, April 11th: s AND 10.00 am Congressman James G. Fulton, Pa. (R) (Asked for the appointment to discuss a surplus depot in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County) 10.15 am Mr. William Lanier; Mr. Abner Larson. (Democratic Nominees for U.S. Senate in N. Dak. - at request of Mr. San O'Neal at Committee) 10.30 am Hon. John F. Fitzgerald, former Mayor of Boston; Mr. Roscie Pryor; Mr. Frank Davis. ( To shake hands at request of Cong. John McCormack, Mass.) 10.45 am Mr. Jack Beal of TIME (Going to China with Gen. Marshall on a deal with the Chinese Government, and TIME has given him year's leave of absence. Wants to say "goodbye" and tell him about the trip. Had expected to leave next Wednesday, but General Marshall has now asked him to be ready to leave with him tomorrow night, Friday) 11.00 am Mr. Flavel Robertson (of Kansas City - wrote that he would be in Washington at this time and asked to be given opportunity to see the President) 11.15 an Lt. Gen. Edmund B. Gregory (Arranged at suggestion General Vaughan) 11.30 am The Secretary of State; Hon. George Messersmith, Ambassador Designate to Argentina. (In town briefly before going back to Mexico City to pack up and leave for South America) 12.00 The President presented the Collier Congressional Awards to Senator Arthur H, Vandenburg, Michigan; Cong. A.S. Monroney, Okla. (These awards are of $10,000 each to the Senator and Represen- tative, who, in the judgment of a non-partisan committee of citizens, has best served the country during the preceding 12 months. Object is to attract attention to the work of Congress. Those invited to attend as follows: Mr. Owen D. Young; Dr. Channing Tobias; Mrs. Arthur H. Vandenberg; Major A.H. Vandenberg, Jr.; Mrs. A.S. Mike Monroney; Miss Leisch; Miss Bailey; Mr. Michael Monroney; Mr. Thomas H. Beck; Mr. A. E. Winger; Mr. William L. Chenery; Mr. Henry LaCossitt; Robert Wilkinson; Mr. Herman Hettinger; Mr. Walter Davenport; Mr. Richard Chaplin; Mr. Allen Foster; Mr. Robert DeVore; Mr. Frank Gervasi; Mr. James Derieux; William Hillman; Lt. Commander Dan Clark; Richard Young.