| Show american legion report on sat nat convention convent at a recent meeting of price post no 3 of the american legion dis anet commander glen ballinger Ball mger sub a report on the national convention of the american legion held in miami florida on october loth thru 1955 commander ballinger s report dwelt mostly on the type and caliber of the men who lead the legion na tio nally he stated that president eisenhower Elsen hower ex president truman vice president nixon most members of the cabinet and the supreme court more than half of tho the con gress and the united states senate plus thirty three governors are mem bers of the american legion noted men commander ballinger stated who ulio addressed the convention were john foster bues dulles sec see of state john stelle former gov of illinois william randolph hearst jr sec see of labor james P mitchell geo rge president of the amer lean ican labor dr J cloyd miller past president of the american red cross dr david B allman of the american medical association dr jonas E salk the discoverer of the salk vaccine senator walter F george chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and louis johnson former sec see of de lense other distinguished legionnaires present at the convention were sen acors clinton anderson NM sty les bridges N NH H lyndon johnson texas wm F knowland calif richard russell ga of mass representatives jos martin sam rayburn and carl commander ballinger states that in his report the national command er stated that in 1905 the american legion reached a milestone in the boy scout program as the number of units sponsored by posts and aux diary units exceeded 4 for the first time which makes the legion about the largest sponsor of boy scouts in the united states |
