FDR

There is hereby created the 'Defense Communications Board.'

The functions of the Board shall be, with the requirements of national defense as a primary consideration, to determine, coordinate, and prepare plans for the national defense.

The Board shall take no cognizance of matters pertaining to censorship.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, c. 421, 36 Stat. 847, Executive Order No. 3271 of May 11, 1920, withdrawing certain public lands in Box Elder County, Utah, is hereby modified

The purpose of Selective Service is to secure an orderly, just, and democratic method whereby the military manpower of the United States may be made available for training and service in the land and naval forces of the United States, as…

The Governor of each State shall have charge of the administration of the selective service law in his State.

Selective Service involves these processes: Registration, classification and selection, and delivery for induction.

Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this Act upon publication by the President of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for any registration under Section 2.

I feel certain that many thousands of our most able and patriotic citizens will offer their services for this duty.

The procurement and training of our manpower under proper administration, fairly and without fear or favor, is undoubtedly the most important single factor in our entire program of national defense.

I know that I can count on your fullest cooperation.

A favorable and intelligent public opinion...can be more effective in securing proper and effective administration of the law than the penalties written into the statute.

I can never forget that some well-meaning people have even recently seriously suggested that the right to vote be denied to American men and women who through no fault of their own had lost their jobs.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

The survival and the growth of the University through these two centuries are particularly symbolic of the eternal strength that is inherent in the American concept of the freedom of human thought and action.

No dictator in history has ever dared to run the gauntlet of a really free election.

The times call for bold belief that the world can be changed by man's endeavor, and that this endeavor can lead to something new and better.

Events in this world of ours today are making the vast majority of our citizens think more and more clearly about the manner of the growth of their liberty and freedom.

It is not intended by this order to give a national-forest status to any publicly-owned lands which do not now have such status, or to remove any publicly-owned lands from a national-forest status.

I hereby further exempt the said Samuel J. Gompers from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1941.

I hereby further authorize and direct the Solicitor of Commerce to perform the duties of the Secretary of Commerce in case of the absence, sickness, resignation, or death of the Secretary of Commerce, the Under Secretary of Commerce, and…

I hereby authorize and direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce to perform the duties of the Secretary of Commerce in case of the absence, sickness, resignation, or death of the Secretary of Commerce and of the Under Secretary of…

We must and will marshal our great potential strength to fend off war from our shores.

We cannot remain indifferent to the philosophy of force now rampant in the world.

The method is fair, it is sure, it is democratic-it is the will of our people.