04/24/1935
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"This is not complete, immediate national mobilization."
"I am very, very appreciative of it and I think people understand the seriousness of the situation."
"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 Ha..."
"I hereby further exempt the said Frank B. Bourn from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941."