Herbert Hoover actually said...

That James G. Findlay, Special Agent of the Department of Justice, be hereby appointed a special disbursing officer, without compensation other than that paid him by the Department of Justice, that he give bond in the sum of $5,000 as such special disbursing officer, and that the sum of $5,000 be placed to his credit out of the appropriation heretofore mentioned.

Context

Executive Order 5239—Expenditures in Connection with Matters Affecting Oil Lands on Former Naval Reserves

12/11/1929

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