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I hereby exempt the said Albert Clyde-Burton from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending July 31, 1941.

The prompt consideration and enactment of this measure is essential to the maintenance of our domestic and foreign commerce.

I hereby exempt the said Maitland S. Wright from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending July 31, 1941.

The Government of the United States will not consider as valid any attempts to infringe by force the independence and territorial integrity of France.

I wish also to reiterate in the most emphatic terms that, making every possible effort under present conditions, the Government of the United States has made it possible for the Allied armies to obtain during the weeks that have just…

I believe it is possible to say that every week that goes by will see additional materiel on its way to the Allied nations.

Executive Order No. 8135 of May 15, 1939, governing appeals from decisions of the Auditor General of the Philippines to the President of the United States, is hereby amended.

So long will they rest assured that materiel and supplies will be sent to them from the United States in ever-increasing quantities and kinds.

In becoming a member of the International Labor Organization, this Government assumed the following undertaking in regard to such draft Conventions and Recommendations.

I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury to assemble annually a Coast Guard Personnel Board.

The reservation made by section 2 of this order shall remain in force until revoked by the President or by act of Congress.

Executive Order No. 6039 of February 20, 1933, reserving public lands in Alaska for the use of the War Department as a radio station, and for the use of the Alaska Game Commission for pasturage and other purposes, is hereby revoked insofar…

Enlisted men of the Army on duty in Bogota, Colombia, and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps on duty in the office of the Naval Attaché, American Embassy, Bogota, Colombia, and the office of the Naval Attaché, American Embassy…

It is ordered that Chapter IX of the Foreign Service Regulations of the United States be, and it is hereby, amended as follows

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, c. 369, 37 Stat. 497, it is ordered as follows:

The appropriation should, I think, be kept in somewhat elastic form because it is clear that at this time it is impossible to forecast either the exact needs or the exact methods of meeting them.

I believe that this sympathy should be expressed by a concrete example of our inherent and decent generosity.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847, the Executive Order of November 22, 1924, creating Power Site Reserve No. 759, is hereby revoked as to the following-described lands.

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. 404), it is hereby ordered that Baird Snyder, III, may be appointed to the position of Deputy…

It is natural also that we should ask ourselves how now we can prevent the building of that prison and the placing of ourselves in the midst of it.

The machine in hands of irresponsible conquerors becomes the master; mankind is not only the servant; it is the victim, too.

All of the provisions of my proclamation of September 5, 1939, proclaiming the neutrality of the United States in a war between Germany and France; Poland; and the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand apply equally in respect…

It is ordered that the control and jurisdiction over the following-described tract of land be, and they are hereby, transferred to the Federal Works Agency for the use of the Bureau of Customs, Treasury Department.

It is natural and understandable that the younger generation should first ask itself what the extension of the philosophy of force to all the world would lead to ultimately.

There is such a time again today.