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It is my desire that the heads of the executive departments and independent establishments of the Government will immediately cause a survey to be made of the expenditure requirements of their departments and establishments for the remaining months of the fiscal year 1937.

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Message to all Departments and Agencies on Eliminating Unnecessary Expenditures.

04/12/1937

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