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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 30, 1942

Every once in a while you find a plant that isn't clicking quite as well as it should.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 30, 1942

That's the kind of spirit that we lack in Washington, D.C.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 30, 1942

I would say, in regard to Washington, D. C., that there are three situations in this town which are not good.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 30, 1942

the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to exercise, through such officials of the Department of Agriculture and its agencies as he may designate, the authority contained in the said Title II of the Second War Powers Act, 1942…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 30, 1942

The people of the country as a whole have got the finest kind of morale.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 30, 1942

I would say as a whole that I am very well satisfied, because the production is so nearly up to the goal.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

The Chairman of the War Production Board is authorized and directed to assume full responsibility for and control over the Nation's rubber program in all of its phases.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the powers conferred upon the Price Administrator by the 'Emergency Price Control Act of 1942.'

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

After all, parity is, by its very definition, a fair relationship between the prices of the things farmers sell and the things they buy.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

There shall be, within the War Production Board, a Rubber Director, appointed by and responsible to the Chairman of the War Production Board for the administration of the Nation's rubber program.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

In any industry or occupation in which the Secretary finds that a wage stabilization agreement approved by a Government department or agency is operating satisfactorily, or in any industry or occupation in which the Secretary finds that…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

In carrying out this Order, the Rubber Director may direct the Rubber Reserve Company and other subsidiaries of the Re-construction Finance Corporation, the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator for War, the Board of Economic Warfare, the…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

I should like to make clear my unalterable opposition to any recomputation of parity at this time.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

All Federal departments and agencies affected by this order shall refer to the Secretary of Labor for determination, questions of interpretation and application arising hereunder.

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the First War Powers Act, 1941, and for the purpose of enabling the Chairman of the War Manpower Commission more effectively to carry out the responsibility vested in him by Executive Order No…

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FDR
@fdr· Democratic · NY· Sep 16, 1942

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, particularly the Act of December 18, 1941, entitled 'First War Powers Act, 1941'

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