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Harry Truman: “By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 32 of Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of July 22…”

On the recordApril 22, 1951
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 32 of Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of July 22, 1937, 50 Stat. 522, 525 (7 U.S.C 1011), and as President of the United States, and upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, it is ordered as follows:
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 10234—Transferring Certain Lands from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior and...

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