FDR: “I hereby further exempt the said Nelson S. Thompson from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending…”

Improved standards of nutrition, increased levels of farm incomes, avoidance of agricultural surpluses—these are among the important objectives that the Food and Agriculture Organization will assist the Nations of the world in achieving.

It seems obvious that we will be more or less responsible for security in all the Pacific waters.

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.

This year we give as well in necessity—necessity for our own.