Excerpts from the Press Conference in Hyde Park
02/04/1940
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By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912,...
employees of the General Accounting Office whose continuance in the service until June 30, 1937, was authorized by Executive Order No. 7063 ...
An appropriation of $10,000,000 will therefore be needed to meet the expenditure requirements for 1938.
The program adopted by the Commission will require an expenditure of $79,000,000 for construction in the fiscal year 1938.