Modern defense requires that this determination be supported by the highly developed machinery of our industrial productive capacity.
We are trying to expend about a billion and a quarter dollars more than the normal process.
Let Mac be the chairman; he is the secretary.
I hereby further exempt the said Frank B. Bourn from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941.
We do not want to upset the normal trend of things any more than we possibly can help.
I am very, very appreciative of it and I think people understand the seriousness of the situation.
I hereby exempt the said Joseph F. Reardon from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending May 31, 1941.
This is not complete, immediate national mobilization.
Any person employed in a foreign country or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico when public exigency warrants, or in any island possess...
I hereby further exempt the said James E. Harper from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941.
The American people will not relish the idea of any American citizen growing rich and fat in an emergency of blood and slaughter and human s...
Each one of you listening to me tonight has a way of helping them.
The Navy is far stronger today than at any peace-time period in the whole long history of the Nation.
I am convinced, however, that under existing conditions the immigration and naturalization activities can best contribute to the national we...
It would prevent the employment of many needy employable persons at their regular occupations.
I think that people who insist on the limitations in Section 11 may, with some justification, be charged with a desire to return to boondogg...
It would force the operation of numerous small projects of doubtful value with resulting complications in operation and administration.
The limitation would have a disastrous effect upon the construction program of the Work Projects Administration.
