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It is essential that Germany should not be able successfully to employ such tactics through sudden seizure of strategic points in the South Atlantic and in the North Atlantic.

Consular officers shall render all proper assistance to Customs and Tariff Commission representatives abroad to aid them in the performance of their official duties.

And by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2380 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, it is further ordered that the above-described land be, and it is hereby, reserved for townsite purposes to be disposed of in…

I hereby suspend for the duration of the national emergency declared by me on September 8, 1939, to exist, the provisions of the said act of March 3, 1931.

Before certifying invoices signed by an agent, a consular officer may, if he deems it necessary, require that a power of attorney authorizing the agent to sign invoices be executed by the principal in the transaction.

In replying to inquiries received from exporters, travelers, or other interested parties, consular officers shall refrain from giving, or appearing to give, decisions pertaining to matters upon which they are not competent to pass.

Upon the receipt of a request therefor from a collector of customs or appraising officer of the Government of the United States, a consular officer shall procure and forward samples of merchandise being imported or offered for importation…

Consular officers of the United States shall familiarize themselves with the provisions of laws and regulations of the United States relating to the documentation of merchandise for importation into the United States from abroad.

The United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

The Director of the Office of Government Reports is authorized to continue in employment those persons employed in the Office of Government Reports on June 30, 1941.

I am glad that you have come today, because as I suggested at lunch to some of the Trustees, this is the last chance you have got to see this Library free of charge.

I hereby further exempt the said Hubert K. Bishop from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1942.

It must believe in the future.

Our confidence in the future of democracy has not diminished in this Nation and will not diminish.

It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.

The national interest requires that between July 1, 1941, and June 30, 1942, 900,000 men be inducted into the land forces of the United States.

It Is hereby ordered that a Good Conduct Medal, including suitable appurtenances, be established and that the said medal may be awarded, under such regulations as the Secretary of War shall prescribe, to those enlisted men of the Army of…

Without housing for workers, industries producing ships, planes, tanks, and other defense materials cannot function to full capacity.

I hereby further exempt the said Samuel A. Cottrell from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1942.

There shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.

Until June 30, 1943, all positions in or under the Inland Waterways Corporation.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of March 26, 1934, 48 Stat. 466 (U.S.C., title 5, sec. 118c), the list of basic rates of exchange established by section 4 of Executive Order No. 7972 of September 15…

The Government has always paid and always will pay a fair compensation.

The Government should be in a position to obtain this essential equipment and property.