Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

it is ordered that the limits of the customs port of entry of Salem, Massachusetts, in Customs Collection District Number 4 (Massachusetts), be, and they are hereby, extended to include the territory embracing the municipality of Peabody, Massachusetts.

Context

Executive Order 9207—Extending the Limits of the Customs Port of Entry of Salem, Massachusetts, in Customs Collection...

07/28/1942

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