FDR

We will never tolerate a force that destroys the life, the happiness, the free future of our children.

Our national concern for the handicapped and the infirm is one of our national characteristics.

Every American who has played a part in the job of growing, conserving, harvesting, distributing, and processing our food supply has done a magnificent job.

It is essential for every man and woman to do everything to help in the huge task of getting the food produced and seeing that it is conserved and shared.

I call upon the millions of victory gardeners who have done so much to swell the Nation's food supply in these war years to continue their good work.

I ask every American to share our available food by observing the rules of rationing and by cooperating with food merchants in the observance of food price ceilings.

I am heartily in favor of the objectives of S. 293 and I hope that the Congress will see fit to act favorably on those objectives.

Coal offers a good example of the working of the Combined Boards.

We expect the Boards, in the future as in the past, to continue to play their part in facilitating the prompt and adequate use of our economic resources for the common war effort.

The Boards have set a model for economic cooperation between the United Nations in overcoming excessive nationalism and in gaining cooperation between former rivals both on the national and international plane.

The Combined Food Board has proved to be a most useful mechanism for assuring an efficient and reasonably equitable distribution of vital food resources among the various United Nations.

The power to act and make decisions in the economic sphere on behalf of our respective Nations will remain in the duly constituted national agencies.

The Boards are dealing now with serious shortages in such commodities as tires and trucks, coal, textiles, footwear, animal protein foods, and fats and oils.

Through the Boards, former occupied countries are being helped to start up their manufacturing because we want to ease shortages of plants and manpower here, in Britain, and in Canada.

We hear a good bit about differences between the United States and Britain, but perhaps we hear less of how really effectively they are working together in winning the war.

Together with Prime Ministers Churchill and Mackenzie King, I have just outlined the work the Combined Boards are to do from now until the end of the war with Japan.

It is ordered as follows: The periods of service or training and service of all persons inducted under the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, shall be, and they are hereby, extended for the period of…

I hereby authorize the Secretary of War to take possession of the properties of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company.

Public Health Service insignia shall be substituted for SPAR insignia and headgear other than appropriate insignia of grade.

In time of war, and at such other times as may be designated by the Surgeon General, all commissioned officers of the Public Health Service on active duty shall appear in uniform.

The above-named officers shall, while under the jurisdiction of the War Department, serve under their commissions in the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Public Health Service insignia shall be substituted for Coast Guard insignia other than appropriate insignia of grade.

Except as provided in section 2 of this order, the uniforms of male commissioned officers of the Public Health Service shall be the same as the uniforms now or hereafter prescribed for male commissioned officers of the Coast Guard of…

Public Health Service insignia shall be substituted for Army or Army Medical Corps insignia other than the block letters 'U. S.' and appropriate insignia of grade.

The above-named officers shall be returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey when the present national emergency ceases to exist.