12/22/1933
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"The Secretary of State shall act as Chairman of the Board."
"The Director of the Commission is authorized and directed to formulate and effectuate a program for the study of typhus fever and the control thereof."
"it is ordered that all of the functions, duties, and powers vested in the Council of National Defense be, and they are hereby, transferred to and vested in the Secretary of the Interior"
"There is hereby created a Board to be known as the 'Medal for Merit Board'."