It is necessary and proper, because of the emergency, that all merchandise (except grain) imported during the calendar year 1931 and entered for warehousing...be permitted to remain in warehouse for a further period.

I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby order that the following functions and powers be, and they are hereby, delegated to the Administrator for Industrial Recovery.

I hereby proclaim, order, direct, and declare that the proclamations of March 6, 1933, and March 9, 1933, and the Executive Order of March 10, 1933, and all orders and regulations pursuant thereto, are amended.

I therefore hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend the period for exportation...of the completed articles in such cases for not more than one year.

Probably through the setting up of some better machinery for the protection of the little men.

I ask especially that no State shall by law or otherwise authorize the return of the saloon either in its old form or in some modern guise.

I am living with sheets of paper.

We could keep perfectly clear the separation of functions.

The two worries are that the operation of some of the codes may work out in such a way that big business will be benefited to the detriment of the little businesses.

It would be a great deal better for the Government as a whole if Congress could keep in very close touch with the operations of the administrative branch of the Government right straight through the year.

What we are seeking is the method of answering those two questions.

I believe a lot of people are looking it up and checking on it.

A lot of little fellows have thought that they might be forced out of business.

I do not hesitate to say that if I had, for example, been engaged in a political campaign as a citizen of some other American Republic I might have been strongly tempted to play upon the fears of my compatriots.

the acquisition of such of the aforesaid lands, by purchase or otherwise, as are suitable and necessary for the aforesaid purposes, is hereby authorized

Through all of the centuries of recorded history and down to the world conflict of 1914 to 1918, wars were made by governments.

It has seemed clear to me as President that the time has come to supplement and to implement the declaration of President Wilson by the further declaration that the definite policy of the United States from now on is one opposed to armed…

The maintenance of constitutional government in other Nations is not a sacred obligation devolving upon the United States alone.