Executive Order 5417—Amendments to Consular Regulations
08/03/1930
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These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.
I earnestly hope that this may be done.
The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhel...
The reductions must be real and positive.