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FDR: Any person employed in a foreign country or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico when public exigency warrants, or…

On the recordMay 27, 1940
Any person employed in a foreign country or in the Virgin Islands, or in Puerto Rico when public exigency warrants, or in any island possession of the United States in the Pacific ocean (except the Hawaiian Islands), or United States citizens employed in the Philippine Islands, when in the opinion of the Civil Service Commission it is not practicable to treat the position as in the competitive classified service.
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Democratic · New York

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Executive Order 8424—Amending Paragraph 7, Subdivision I, Schedule A of the Civil Service Rules

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