FDR: “All clerks and other employees in the Federal service in the District…”

On the recordDecember 19, 1933

All clerks and other employees in the Federal service in the District of Columbia... are hereby excused from duty on those days.

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Democratic · New York

Source

Executive Order 6516—Excusing Federal Employees in the District of Columbia From Duty December 23 and 30, 1933

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