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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 28, 1935

What is going to happen and what is happening today?

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 27, 1935

To initiate, formulate, administer and supervise a program of approved projects for providing relief and work relief and for increasing employment within Puerto Rico.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 27, 1935

The Administrator is authorized to acquire, by purchase or by the power of eminent domain, any real property or any interest therein.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 27, 1935

I hereby prescribe the following functions and duties of the said Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration to be exercised and performed by the Administrator thereof:

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 27, 1935

I hereby establish an agency within the Department of the Interior to be known as the 'Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration.'

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 10, 1935

I hereby establish an agency within the Government to be known as the 'Rural Electrification Administration.'

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 10, 1935

To initiate, formulate, administer, and supervise a program of approved projects with respect to the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric energy in rural areas.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 10, 1935

I hereby prescribe the following duties and functions of the said Rural Electrification Administration to be exercised and performed by the Administrator thereof to be hereafter appointed:

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 7, 1935

I much prefer to continue the conferences in the free and informal fashion.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 6, 1935

I prefer to think that the tributes which will be paid to mothers will come simply and spontaneously from our hearts.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 6, 1935

I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, pursuant to authority vested in me by Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, do hereby adopt and approve the report, recommendations and findings…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 6, 1935

I do hereby adopt and approve the report, recommendations and findings of the National Industrial Recovery Board and do hereby order that the said Agreement be and the same hereby is approved.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 6, 1935

It is not my purpose this year to issue a special proclamation on the subject as I believe that the attention of the American people will be so devoted to the cause of that day that repeated formal action on the part of the Chief Executive…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 6, 1935

I hereby adopt and approve the report, recommendations and findings of the National Industrial Recovery Board.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 6, 1935

I do hereby adopt and approve the report, recommendations and findings of the National Industrial Recovery Board.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 5, 1935

It is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the above-described island be, and it is hereby, withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, entry, or other form of appropriation.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 1, 1935

We believe that further progress will best be brought about by its continuance for a further period of two years, rather than the enactment of different and alternate legislation.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· May 1, 1935

Under the authority of Section 7 the President should impose codes only if he finds that conditions in a particular industry make such imposition desirable in the public interest.

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