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Executive Order 5612—Establishing a Council of Personnel Administration

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Jun 4, 1932

And bank failures which amounted to nearly 100 a week when the Corporation began are now down to about the casualties of normal times.

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Jun 15, 1932

I shall labor as I have labored to meet the effects of the worldwide storm which has devastated us with trials and suffering unequalled in but few periods of our history.

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May 29, 1932

I and my fellow countrymen in dedicating this day to our own dead will be keenly mindful of your own country's great sacrifice and will bend our heads in silent prayer for Belgium's heroic dead.

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Jun 15, 1932

But beyond platforms and measures there lies that sacred realm of ideals of hopes and aspirations, those things of the spirit, which make the greatness and the soul of the Nation.

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