This care of misfortune is our first duty to the nation.
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Letter Requesting Walter S. Gifford To Be Director of the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief
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His services to country were so varied and valuable as to earn the gratitude of the Nation and his character won him the high regard of a host of friends.
No department shall close a station no longer needed by it which is serving other Government departments without first making arrangements in respect to such service that are satisfactory to the departments being served.
It is estimated that altogether over 10 million individual depositors and borrowers have been benefited by the margins provided by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to these banks.
I feel very proud of that tribute, and I appreciate very much the attitude of the press about it.





