FDR

Our form of Government, based as it is on a system of free enterprise, is meeting successfully the challenges of the totalitarian Governments.

But we are not satisfied. We must not be satisfied.

We are meeting the test because there is unity of purpose on the part of our people in all walks of life.

More cooperation, more teamwork, and more production, all the way from the farms and mines through the assembly lines, will enable us to win the war more quickly.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States, and particularly by the First War Powers Act, 1941, it is ordered as follows.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw or reserve lands of the public domain and other lands owned or controlled by the United States.

This Government has vigorously condemned this act of barbarity in a formal communication sent to the Japanese Government.

It is with a feeling of deepest horror, which I know will be shared by all civilized peoples, that I have to announce the barbarous execution by the Japanese Government of some of the members of this country's armed forces.

Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to limit in any way the authority of the Departments of War and Navy to initiate or carry out directly, without review or approval by the Administrator, any action relating to solid fuels or the solid…

The decoration of the Medal for Merit shall be awarded only by the President of the United States or at his direction.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, particularly by the First War Powers Act, 1941, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order…

For the duration of the war and six months thereafter all positions in or under the Inland Waterways Corporation.

It is hereby ordered as follows:1.

I hereby designate Emory B. Land as Chairman of the United States Maritime Commission.

We are doing pioneering work, and other people who haven't got the same advantages we have here are in large measure copying what we are doing.

I still believe that the Nation has a common purpose- equality of sacrifice in wartime.

There are to be no further increases in wage rates or salary scales beyond the Little Steel formula.

Each of them is directed to authorize no further increases in ceiling prices except to the minimum extent required by law.

The attention of all agencies of the Federal Government, and of all State and municipal authorities, concerned with the rates of common carriers is directed to the stabilization program.

We cannot afford to take further chances in relaxing the line.

The Order directs the reduction of all prices which are excessively high, inequitable, or unfair.

No further price increases are to be sanctioned unless imperatively required by law.

I cannot permit a continuance of the upward-spiral of prices.

We can all have enough if we do not try to get too much.

If by this bill you force an increase in the cost of the basic foodstuffs, and as a result the National War Labor Board increases wages, no one can tell where increases will stop.