01/17/1939
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"The Director may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of Defense Transportation."
"There is hereby established a Special Emergency Board of three members to be selected by me from the National Railway Labor Panel to reconsider the claims for wage adjustments of the nonoperating rail..."
"This order shall supersede Executive Order No. 9206 of July 27, 1942."
"We must prepare for necessary postwar adjustments, this preparation must not interfere with the long and hard war programs which are still ahead of us."