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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 11, 1934

The cost of distributing electricity to homes and farms in New York State warrants a rate schedule which would charge not more than 3 1/2¢ a kilowatt hour for a use of 50 kilowatt hours a month instead of the average of 64 which these…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 11, 1934

When it is considered that the total electric bill of New York State is nearly $300,000,000 a year and that the consumers of electricity in the Northeastern States which will be affected by this yardstick pay over $681,000,000 annually for…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 11, 1934

This means that when rate schedules are reduced to the measure provided by the public yardsticks being set up under the national power program, a majority of homes should get more than 100 kilowatt hours for the monthly bills under which…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 7, 1934

I hereby approve said amendments and modify my previous approval of the Code of Fair Competition for the Wine Industry to include an approval of said code in its entirety as hereby amended.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 7, 1934

I do hereby exempt Thomas M. Thurston from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until December 1, 1935.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 6, 1934

it is ordered that San Clemente Island and the rocky island at west entrance to North West Harbor, San Clemente Island, California, be transferred from the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce to the control and…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 6, 1934

it is ordered that San Miguel Island and Prince Island...be, and they are hereby, transferred from the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Navy for naval purposes

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Nov 1, 1934

Silver which at the close of business on November 7, 1934, falls within category (a), (b), (d), (e), or (f) of Section 2 shall be permanently exempt from the requirement that such silver be delivered under this Order.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 31, 1934

Mrs. Stebbins may be appointed to the position of senior stenographer.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 30, 1934

I am convinced that frank discussion among organized veterans' groups would be most helpful in its ultimate solution.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 30, 1934

We may, I am sure, depend upon our American people continuously to honor our veterans of whatever war.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 30, 1934

Justice to the War Wounded, Justice to the War Dead, Justice to the American People.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 29, 1934

It is ordered that the tract of public land on Kodiak Island, Alaska, be temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry for use by the Smithsonian Institution in the prosecution of archaeological investigations.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 29, 1934

schedule A of the civil-service rules is amended by adding thereto a new subdivision to be numbered XXIV and entitled 'National Railroad Adjustment Board'

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 29, 1934

Executive Order No. 6065, dated March 3, 1933, reserving certain lands in Arizona and Nevada as the Boulder Canyon Wild Life Refuge, be, and it is hereby, revoked insofar as it affects the following-described land in Arizona.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 28, 1934

it is hereby ordered that all items above enumerated under Class One be, and they are hereby, transferred temporarily to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for use in the administration of the government of the…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 28, 1934

It is not intended by this order to give any public lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status nor to remove any lands from a national-forest status.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 28, 1934

it is further ordered that all items above enumerated under Class Two be, and they are hereby, transferred to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary for use in the administration of the government of the Virgin Islands

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