07/11/1937
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"The overwhelming greater part of the population of the world abhors conquest and war and bloodshed."
"We, and most of the people in the World, still believe in a civilization of construction and not of destruction."
"It is our compelling duty to guard and enrich that legacy, to preserve it for a world which must be reborn from the ashes of the present disaster."
"By virtue of the authority vested in me by the provisions of paragraph Eighth, subdivision SECOND, section 2 of the Civil Service Act (22 Stat. 403, 404), the Civil Service Commission is hereby author..."