FDR: “This bill is objectionable because it provides for the payment of a gratuity to the widow of a retired Foreign Service…”

We all know that the reduction of Government-created barriers to trade will not solve all our trade problems.

I recommend that the Congress authorize the acceptance of the Constitution and the participation of the United States in the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization.

That such study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the experience which industry and labor have thus far had with these plans, and of reporting the facts for the benefit of the…

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: