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It is hereby ordered that there be exempted from the operation of Executive Order No. 6746 of June 21, 1934, the positions of consultants, experts, specialists, attorneys, and other similar positions.

I do hereby exempt Walter B. Luna from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until March 1, 1938.

The vital interests of the Nation demand that sooner or later protective measures of this type be placed in effect.

We have not solved the problem of crop stability yet, though we have made much progress.

May this permanent home of the Federal Trade Commission stand for all time as a symbol of the purpose of the Government to insist on a greater application of the Golden Rule to the conduct of corporations and business enterprises in their…

I do proclaim that, subject to all valid existing rights, all lands of the United States within the following-described areas are hereby included in and reserved as a part of the Harney National Forest.

An ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure.

It is my philosophy that the time to repair a leaky roof is when the sun is shining.

I do proclaim that, subject to the withdrawal made by order of the Secretary of the Interior of July 9, 1934, the following-described lands in Arizona are hereby reserved and added to and made a part of the Wupatki National Monument.

I hope that Congress will enact appropriate legislation giving its consent to this interstate compact as required by Article I, Section 10, of the Constitution of the United States.

The effect of such an arrangement is that part of the individual borrower's interest is paid for him by the United States.

Further reductions in the interest rates payable on Federal land bank loans are not justified.

I have been unable to find any system in which second mortgage loans have been made available to farmers generally on a basis as low as the present 5 percent Land Bank Commissioner loan rate.

It is hereby ordered that Jacob Oblock may be appointed to a position as elevator operator in the Custodial Service, Post Office Department, without compliance with the requirements of the Civil Service Rules.

I believe, therefore, that there is no justification for continued Government subsidy of Federal land bank interest rates below the unprecedentedly low rate these banks are now offering farmer-borrowers on a business basis.

Executive Order No. 5603 of April 20, 1931, withdrawing public lands in Wyoming, pending resurvey, is hereby revoked.

Reserves should equal that percentage of all apportioned funds susceptible to the establishment of such reserves

To abandon any reform of the judicial processes at this session of the Congress means an abandonment of the objectives.

This has been a good Fourth of July for the country.

I am very confident of the future of this country as long as we maintain the democracy of our manners and the democracy of our hearts.

We would not have our highways today, this wonderful system of state roads, for example, if it were not done under the direction and supervision of state government rather than local government as formerly.

I hope the new generation, just like the older generation, will realize that in meeting these new conditions we are not changing the fundamentals of the American form of government.

The objectives of the President, and, I believe of the great majority of our citizens, remain the same.

We shall affirm our debt to those who ordained and established the Constitution

We shall think afresh of the founding of our Government under the Constitution