FDR: “His was a life of rare distinction; soldier, scholar, author, teacher, jurist and gallant gentleman.”

We can be proud of all that the Red Cross has meant to them.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.

That the whole question of guaranteed wage plans and the possibility of their future development in American industries as an aid in the stabilization of employment and the regularization of production, should now be comprehensively…