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Temporary clerks, carriers, and laborers required for part-time or intermittent work in the Postal Service may be appointed without compliance with the requirements of the Civil Service Rules.

The United States Coast Guard for the District of Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, together with its organization, personnel, and equipment, is hereby transferred from the service and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Treasury to the…

Executive Order No. 8168 of June 14, 1939, reserving certain lands near Sitka, Alaska, for use as a magnetic and seismological observatory site by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce, is hereby revoked.

We realize fully how vitally important to the defeat of Hitlerism is the brave and steadfast resistance of the Soviet Union.

The Board shall prescribe regulations with respect to transfers and payments.

The public interest requires control of the use of installment credit.

On and after the effective date of any regulation prescribed by the Board... all transfers and payments which are in violation of such regulation shall be... prohibited.

It is hereby ordered as follows: Administration.

It is ordered that the designation of Grand Rapids, Michigan, as a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 38 (Michigan), be, and it is hereby, revoked.

It is ordered that, subject to valid existing rights, the public lands in the following-described area be, and they are hereby, withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public-land laws.

It is deemed necessary in the public interest to revoke the said license:

I hereby suspend, for the duration of the emergencies proclaimed by me on September 8, 1939, and May 27, 1941, the above-mentioned provisions of law prohibiting more than eight hours of labor in any one day of laborers and mechanics…

Executive Order No. 8827 of July 24, 1941, exempting Harry T. Edwards, senior technologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending October 31, 1941, is hereby…

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, I hereby prescribe the following regulations pertaining to within-grade salary advancements for employees whose positions are classified in accordance with the…

The public lands within the hereinafter-described area in the State of Nebraska are hereby restored to their former status of being withdrawn.

Legislation should include authority to establish ceilings for prices and rents, to purchase materials and commodities when necessary, to assure price stability, and to deal more extensively with excesses in the field of installment credit.

Labor has far more to gain from price stability than from abnormal wage increases.

Executive Order No. 8798 of June 19, 1941, transferring certain vessels between the Navy Department and the Department of Commerce, is hereby amended.

Nothing will sap the morale of this Nation more quickly or ruinously than penalizing its sweat and skill and thrift by the individually undeserved and uncontrollable poverty of inflation.

We face inflation, unless we act decisively and without delay.

The choice is ours to make; but we must act speedily.

I hereby exempt the said Charles A. Appel from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending October 31, 1942.

I hereby exempt the said Paul Bartsch from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending August 31, 1942.

This measure, in effect, brings all financial and import and export trade transactions in which Japanese interests are involved under the control of the Government.

This Executive Order... is designed among other things to prevent the use of the financial facilities of the United States and trade between Japan and the United States.