Obviously, just so long as you have to pay exorbitant real-estate prices in clearing slum properties, you cannot put up any new buildings on a sufficiently sound basis.
FDR
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
The Special Adviser may appoint, without regard to the Civil Service laws, officials and employees.
The authorization herein set forth shall not exclude any department or other agency from carrying on such activities as are now authorized by law.
The general principles of H. R. 7659 seem to me sound, and the effect sought a necessary one for recovery and prevention of future economic crises.
The Special Adviser is authorized to obtain, review, and coordinate the information, statistics, and data with reference to foreign trade.
The loss of a job brings discouragement and privation to the individual worker and his family.
I have to point out in a memorandum that in its essentials this bill is really nothing more than a resolution that it is still the policy of the United States to build up to the London Naval Treaty limits.
I have advocated unemployment insurance as an essential part of our program to build a more ample and secure life.
The temporary committee created by me is supplanted by the present arrangement.
There is hereby established the Office of Special Adviser to the President on Foreign Trade.
I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, do adopt and approve the report, recommendations and findings of the Administrator and do…
If no agreement is reached, and in default of arbitration, it may be necessary for me, with due regard to the protection of the general public interest, to appoint a commission to examine thoroughly into the labor controversy.
I do hereby approve said Code of Fair Competition for the Grain Exchanges and Members Thereof.
We must continue in behalf of the medium-size man in industry and commerce.
I feel that the situation disclosed calls for immediate relief and that such situations as can be relieved through the medium of working capital should have our earnest support.
No bid which does not comply with the foregoing requirements shall be considered or accepted.
The public lands in the areas released from such withdrawal shall be opened only to entry under the homestead and desert-land laws by qualified ex-service men for whose service recognition is granted by said resolution.
The thing is going through; perhaps not today, but the St. Lawrence Seaway is going to be built just as sure as God made little apples.
Whenever a dispute shall arise between any agency of the United States and any bidder, contractor, supplier, or other person as to compliance... the Administrator for Industrial Recovery... shall decide such dispute and, for the purposes…
All provisions of approved codes of fair competition shall apply to the making and performance of contracts with or sales to agencies of the United States.
All contracts and purchase orders authorized... shall contain a provision to the effect that the party or parties awarded any such contract... shall comply with each approved code of fair competition to which it is subject.
All invitations to bidders hereafter promulgated... shall contain a provision to the effect that no bid will be considered unless it includes or is accompanied by a certificate duly executed by the bidder.





