10/20/1936
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"I hereby exempt the said Joseph F. Reardon from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending May 31, 1941."
"Each one of you listening to me tonight has a way of helping them."
"The Navy is far stronger today than at any peace-time period in the whole long history of the Nation."
"The American people will not relish the idea of any American citizen growing rich and fat in an emergency of blood and slaughter and human suffering."