10/21/1934
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"I hereby exempt the said Francis T. Leahy from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending October 31, 1939."
"The need is just as great as before because Government help was intended and is intended to improve the old conditions."
"We are giving work to more than three million men and women, unemployed through no fault of their own, on our WPA program."
"The scope of voluntary action cannot be limited, because the very desire to help the less fortunate is a basic and spontaneous human urge that knows no boundary lines."