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I have been impelled to remove you for the following reasons: Openly making grave and libelous charges of dishonesty and want of integrity against your fellow directors without reasonable excuse or justification.

I hope—I deeply hope—that Arthur E. Morgan will not make it necessary for me to take further action.

Income, excess profits, and capital stock tax returns made under the Revenue Act of 1936... shall be open to inspection

This government has become so impressed with the urgency of the problem of political refugees that it has inquired of a number of Governments in Europe and in this hemisphere whether they would be willing to cooperate in setting up a…

I hereby designate the Secretary of the Treasury on behalf of the United States to receive from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation all of such capital stock.

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to exercise on behalf of the United States any and all rights accruing to the holder of such stock.

The annual leave authorized by these regulations shall, except as to temporary employees, be recorded and administered on a calendar-year basis.

I do hereby call upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on April 13, 1938.

Leave shall be granted at such time or times as may be deemed to be in the public interest.

Except in the case of temporary employees, Sundays and holidays occurring within a period of annual leave shall not be charged as annual leave.

Annual leave shall accrue to an employee while in a leave-with-pay status.

I hereby declare April 6, 1938, as Army Day.

I do hereby exempt John G. Honey from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until July 1, 1939.

I do hereby exempt William J. Maries from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until April 1, 1939.

The limits of the customs port of entry of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Customs Collection District No. 11 (Philadelphia), are hereby extended to include the following territory.

I do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendatory regulation of the Secretary of Agriculture.

The forest problem is therefore a matter of vital national concern.

Public opinion asks that steps be taken to remove it.

Most of the commercial forest lands are in private ownership.

I recommend, therefore, study by a joint committee of the Congress of the forest land problem of the United States.

I feel impelled at this time to call to the attention of the Congress some aspects of our forest problem.

Events of the past five years have indicated that my earlier conviction was well founded.

We are still exploiting our forest lands.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1937, approved June 29, 1937, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Executive Order No. 2184 of April 27, 1915, withdrawing and reserving lands in Alaska for townsite purposes, is hereby revoked.