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Herbert Hoover: “In the event of public emergency any retired Foreign Service officer may be recalled temporarily to active service by…”

On the recordJune 7, 1931
In the event of public emergency any retired Foreign Service officer may be recalled temporarily to active service by the President, and while so serving he is entitled in lieu of his retirement allowance to the full pay of the class in which he is temporarily serving.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Executive Order 5642—Administration of the Foreign Service

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