Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403), it is ordered that paragraph 7, Subdivision III, Schedule A of the Civil Service Rules, excepting from competitive civil-service requirements certain positions in the Public Health Service, Treasury Department, be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

04/28/1938

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