Excerpts from the Press Conference
08/17/1944
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I hereby further exempt the said Percy Nicholls from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1942.
It is hereby ordered that Dr. Harold C. Bryant may be appointed to the classified position of Superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park.
The will of our people, as expressed through the Congress, was to meet this problem.
The company already has stated that any such settlement will be retroactive to May first.