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I hereby order that, except as hereinafter provided, the transfers, consolidations, and eliminations contemplated by section 4 of Executive Order No. 6166 of June 10, 1933, as amended, which are not effected prior to June 30, 1937, be…

Desecheo Island... is hereby transferred and conveyed to the people of Puerto Rico to be used for forest reserve and native bird preserve purposes only.

It is ordered that John W. Bailey, Junior, and George Gregg Fuller, who resigned their positions as officers in the Foreign Service of the United States on March 31, 1935, and April 4, 1935, respectively, to accept appointments to…

I do hereby exempt Edward M. Weeks from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until September 1, 1938.

I would just as soon see a program like that go through.

I think Congress might find it perfectly possible to pass sugar legislation then.

This whole thing can be done, as far as we can see at the present time, with a tax standard.

I think probably some time this summer or this fall, I shall make a fireside talk or talk to you people about some more of the details of this objective.

I don't think the country wants a filibuster.

I hereby designate Highgate Springs, Vermont, a customs port of entry.

I think common sense dictates that if a fellow is willing to make an agreement verbally, why shouldn't he put his name to it?

It will even bite into the problem of the care of the unemployable because there will be some member of the family who will be able to take care of him.

I don't want to be put in a position of having to say that Community A is sufficiently solvent to increase its taxes.

It seems to me that that is pretty tough, not only on the President, but on the communities of the United States.

I'm not talking about the details.

When one-third of the nation hasn't got any buying power, it ought to be to the interest of every business man to try to help that one-third of the country to get buying power.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, 37 Stat. 497, the Executive Order of October 23, 1914, creating Power-Site Reserve No. 451, as…

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the United States Maritime Commission amounting to $10,000,000.

The program adopted by the Commission will require an expenditure of $79,000,000 for construction in the fiscal year 1938.

It is not reasonable to insist that 4 percent on a first mortgage for a farmer or 5 percent on a second mortgage is an unreasonably high rate of interest.

Employees of the General Accounting Office whose continuance in the service until June 30, 1937, was authorized by Executive Order No. 7063 may be further continued in the service for a period not to extend beyond June 30, 1938.

An appropriation of $10,000,000 will therefore be needed to meet the expenditure requirements for 1938.

I do hereby exempt William T. Marshall from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until August 1, 1938.

The present territorial freight rate boundaries constitute barriers against the free flow of commerce.

The existence of these barriers tends to retard substantially the commercial and economic development of the Tennessee River drainage basin.