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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 25, 1943

The Government's policy not to seek deferments for part-time or uncompensated employees or for dollar-a-year men is well established.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 24, 1943

The use, possession, and control of the lands hereinafter described be, and they are hereby, transferred from the Department of Agriculture to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 18, 1943

The success of that program will greatly reduce the shipping and future needs of France itself for American food.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 18, 1943

I think the thing is that we are, I hope, gradually eliminating a whole lot of smoke and a lot of details, and coming down to brass tacks.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 18, 1943

Those same people, some of them professional farmers, they have been getting subsidies ever since 1933, and even before that.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 17, 1943

The Director may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and may appoint such advisory committees as he finds necessary to the performance of his duties and responsibilities.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 17, 1943

The Coordinator may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 17, 1943

The Director may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of Defense Transportation.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 17, 1943

The Director may provide for the internal organization and management of the Office of Civilian Defense.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 15, 1943

There is hereby established a Special Emergency Board of three members to be selected by me from the National Railway Labor Panel to reconsider the claims for wage adjustments of the nonoperating railway employees.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 14, 1943

This order shall supersede Executive Order No. 9206 of July 27, 1942.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 14, 1943

There is hereby established a Board, to be known as the Advisory Board on Just Compensation.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 14, 1943

We must prepare for necessary postwar adjustments, this preparation must not interfere with the long and hard war programs which are still ahead of us.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 13, 1943

I regard the Nation's advance in prosperity and in friendship during those ten years as something that ought to be written up in the history books.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Oct 13, 1943

It is becoming a self-contained country, with divergent resources of all sorts of things.

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