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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.

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Feb 16, 1934

Executive Order No. 4728 of September 29, 1927, as amended by Executive Order No. 5022 of January 5, 1929, and restored to full force and effect by Executive Order No. 5288 of February 26, 1930, is hereby amended by adding to item B in…

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Feb 15, 1934

I do adopt and approve the report, recommendations and findings of the Administrator and do order that the said Code of Fair Competition be and is hereby approved for a period of 90 days.

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Feb 14, 1934

The said disbursing officers are hereby directed, upon certification of a designated certifying officer of the Federal Civil Works Administration, to make payment for said supplies and services;

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Feb 14, 1934

There is hereby allocated from the said appropriation to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration the sum of $500,000,000

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Feb 13, 1934

It is hereby directed that the governing body of the Export-Import Bank of Washington shall consist of a board of trustees composed of not less than five members nor more than nine members.

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Feb 13, 1934

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, approved June 16, 1933, and otherwise, do approve the report and recommendations and adopt…

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Feb 8, 1934

Such speculation has run the scale from the individual who has risked his pay envelope or his meager savings on a margin transaction involving stocks with whose true value he was wholly unfamiliar, to the pool of individuals or…

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Feb 8, 1934

I hereby authorize the Beet Sugar Committee to accept and utilize the voluntary and uncompensated services of Professor W. Lewis Abbott.

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Feb 8, 1934

It is hereby ordered that the following-described public land in the State of Oregon be, and it is hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry

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Feb 7, 1934

I hereby authorize the Administrator for Industrial Recovery to prescribe rules and regulations requiring persons subject to codes of fair competition approved under said title to post or display the terms and provisions of said codes.

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Feb 6, 1934

I do hereby designate and appoint, effective the seventh day of February, 1934, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Director General of Railroads, as the agent provided for in said section 206 of the Transportation Act, 1920.

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Feb 5, 1934

I am greatly encouraged that the Governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru give this convincing demonstration that they share our belief that such boundary disputes are eminently susceptible of pacific and friendly settlement.

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Feb 5, 1934

It has been a source of intimate satisfaction to me to consent to the request made by the Governments of these great Republics.

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Feb 5, 1934

It is ordered that the land hereinafter listed... be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry and reserved for classification.

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Feb 5, 1934

It is hereby ordered that the following-described tracts of land be, and they are hereby, transferred as follows:

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Feb 1, 1934

An agency, to wit: a banking corporation, be created pursuant to title 5, chapter 9, section 261 of the Code of the District of Columbia, under the name of Export-Import Bank of Washington.

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Feb 1, 1934

This work has nothing to do with partisan politics—nothing at all.

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Jan 31, 1934

I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby provide for and direct the enforcement of certain provisions of section 7 (a) of said act.

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Jan 30, 1934

I do approve the report and recommendations and adopt the findings of the Administrator and do order that the said Code of Fair Competition be and it is hereby approved.

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Jan 29, 1934

It is only in recent years that we have come to realize the true significance of the problem of our crippled children.

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