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Truman Committee

U.S. Senate committee that investigated the national defense program in 1941–1944, chaired by Harry Truman.

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Also known as
Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program
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Q2790804

In March and April 1942 it heard the Justice Department and Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) on the oil company’s agreements with I. G. Farben.

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    A committee of the Senate, which is half of Congress.

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  1. 1942 Harry S. Truman chair of Truman Committee
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  1. Investigation of the National Defense Program: Hearings before a Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, United States Senate, Part 11 (Rubber), March-April 1942, U.S. Senate (scan on the Internet Archive), 1942. Primary record
    SPECIAL COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM HARRY S. TRUMAN, Missouri, Chairman
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