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On the recordApril 27, 1917
It is further declared that the current status of war constitutes an \extraordinary emergency\
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Executive Order 2605—Suspending Eight-Hour Law in Contracts Under the War Department

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