Charles Luckman Papers: Series 14

THE THOMAS AND DOROTHY LEAVEY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LOS ANGELES RESEARCH COLLECTION

CHARLES LUCKMAN PAPERS, 1908-2000 (CSLA-34)

SERIES 14: Citizens Food Committee

Series Size: 2 archival document boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 scrapbook

At the request of President Harry S. Truman in 1947, Charles Luckman served as chair of the twenty-six member “Citizens’ Food Committee,” whose charge was to devise strategies to save American grain for shipment to war-desolated Europe. The committee only lasted two months, ineffectual in its effort to develop voluntary rationing, but it was the forerunner of Truman’s great foreign policy achievement, the Marshall Plan. This series contains some Charles Luckman correspondence concerning his work as chair; other materials include committee budgets, the final report of the committee, photographs, and newspaper articles. All materials date from 1947.

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1	1	Charles Luckman and President Harry S. Truman correspondence; newspaper clippings re Citizens Food Committee	1947
1	2	Incoming correspondence re work as chair of Citizens Food Committee	1947
1	3	Finance Appropriations: Summary of expenditures and budget; correspondence re funding; stationery	1947
1	4-5	Proceedings: The Citizens’ Food Committee. Transcript of White House meeting	1947
1	6	Citizens Food Committee. Statistics of Grain Conservation Programs. Separated from notebook. Loose memoranda re grain and food production	1947
1	7	Citizens Food Committee (Meeting with Distillers). Transcript of Proceedings. Interim Report To The President From Citizens Food Committee	1947
1	8	Transcript of Proceedings. Citizens Food Committee. October 14, 1947. Transcript of Proceedings. Citizens Food Committee. November 14, 1947 (2 copies)	1947
1	9	Transcript of Proceedings. Citizens Food Committee Meeting with Distillers Coordinating Committee. October 28, 1947 Transcript of Proceedings. Citizens Food Committee Meeting with Distillers Coordinating Committee. November 5, 1947	1947
1	10	Charles Luckman radio broadcasts re Citizens Food Committee; press release and statement from Citizens Food Committee	1947
2	1	Transcript of Proceedings. Citizens Food Committee Meeting with Distillers Coordinating Committee and Representatives of Labor, Mr. Austin Fisher Presiding Transcript of Proceedings. Meeting: Mr. Charles Luckman, Chairman, Citizens Food Committee, meeting with the National Restaurant Industry Advisory Committee Press Conference of Mr. Charles Luckman, Chairman, The Citizens Food Committee	1947
2	2	Transcript of Proceedings. Citizens Food Committee Meeting with Brewers Coordinating Committee. November 25, 1947 Transcript of Proceedings. Citizens Food Committee Meeting with Wet and Dry Millers. November 17, 1947 Transcript of Proceedings. Citizens Food Committee Meeting with Brewers Coordinating Committee. November 12, 1947	1947
2	3	Transcript of Proceedings. Brewers Foundation and Small Brewers Committee with Mr. Charles Luckman, Citizens Food Committee Chairman Citizens Food Committee Meeting with Poultry and Poultry Feed Industries	1947
2	4	Rosters, organizational chart re Citizens Food Committee	1947
2	5	Citizens for Food Committee letters: Charles Luckman resignation letter; President Harry S. Truman letter of congratulations to Charles Luckman	1947-1948
2	6	Final Report. Citizens Food Committee Disposition of Funds Advanced…. (Separated from folder.) Citizens Food Committee. Final Report	1949
2	7	Citizens Food Committee Final Report. 3 copies	1947
1ov		Scrapbook with newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and photographs re Citizens Food Committee and Lever Brothers Company. With loose materials in folder.	1947
1ov		Photograph album re Citizen’s Food Committee work and staff; scrapbook with newspaper clippings re Citizen’s Food Committee; loose leaves of large scrapbook with with newspaper clippings re Citizen’s Food Committee	1947
Unboxed; stored on shelf with Luckman Papers		Scrapbook with newspaper articles, synopsis of work of Citizens’ Food Committee. Embossed cover title: “Save Wheat. Save Meat. Save the Peace.”	1947