09/13/1943
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"It is thoroughly reprehensible to do a thing like that."
"By virtue of the authority vested in me... it is ordered that the use, possession, and control of the following-described parcels of land be, and they are hereby, transferred to the Tennessee Valley A..."
"I hereby further exempt the said Samuel A. Cottrell from compulsory retirement for age for a period of nine months ending June 30, 1941."
"This airport and many others which we hope will follow, will draw free men freely to use a peacetime implement of commerce."