Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/26/1940
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Any person employed in a foreign country or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico when public exigency warrants, or in any island possess...
I hereby further exempt the said Frank B. Bourn from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941.
Let Mac be the chairman; he is the secretary.
We are trying to expend about a billion and a quarter dollars more than the normal process.