The United States Food Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to subscribe for and purchase all of said capital stock in the name of and for the use and benefit of the United States and as purchased to pay for the same out of the appropriation of $150,000,000 authorized by section 19 of the act of Congress hereinbefore entitled.
Woodrow Wilson: “The United States Food Administrator is hereby authorized and directed to subscribe for and purchase all of said capital…”
On the recordAugust 13, 1917
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Executive Order 2681—Authority to Organize Food Administration Grain Corporation
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