12/23/1937
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"Together with Prime Ministers Churchill and Mackenzie King, I have just outlined the work the Combined Boards are to do from now until the end of the war with Japan."
"It is ordered as follows: The periods of service or training and service of all persons inducted under the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, shall be, and they ..."
"I hereby authorize the Secretary of War to take possession of the properties of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company."
"In time of war, and at such other times as may be designated by the Surgeon General, all commissioned officers of the Public Health Service on active duty shall appear in uniform."