
His ability, his industry and his untiring devotion to duty were of incalculable benefit to the war effort of the Nation.
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His ability, his industry and his untiring devotion to duty were of incalculable benefit to the war effort of the Nation.

In the truest sense, he personifies the close cooperation, the untiring energy, and the efficient methods which enabled the Nation's railroads to achieve their outstanding and widely acclaimed success.

Mr. Pelley has been an unfailing source of wise counsel and advice to the military establishment on all phases of railroad transportation.

To raise that standard should be, and is, the constant aim of your Government and the underlying basis of its policies.

If men and nations would but live by the precepts of the ancient prophets and the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount, problems which now seem so difficult would soon disappear.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is rounded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only thing that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the…

They look to us for help--not to fight an enemy, nor help for luxuries and extravagances--but just help to keep themselves alive, help in the form of food and clothing, the barest necessities of life.

The United States expects to support that Charter.

All mankind now stands in the doorway to destruction--or upon the threshold of the greatest age in history.

In short, prove yourselves worthy of the liberty and dignity which you have preserved on this earth, by helping those less fortunate who have been starved by the dictators for so many long years and who still starve even in liberation.

The younger generation of today yearns for moral uplift.

If the civilized world as we know it today is to survive, the gigantic power which man has acquired through atomic energy must be matched by spiritual strength of greater magnitude.

The fight to preserve these rights was hard-won.

Veterans shall accompany their applications with certified copies of their certificates of discharge, or other satisfactory evidence of their military or naval service.

The public lands affected by this order shall be subject to (1) application under the homestead or the desert land laws, or the small-tract act of June 1, 1938...

The term 'fissionable materials' as used in this order means (a) all deposits from which the substances known as thorium, uranium (including uranium enriched as to one of its isotopes), and elements higher than uranium in the periodic…

Executive Order No. 9613 of September 13, 1945, entitled 'Withdrawing and Reserving for the Use of the United States Lands Containing Radio-active Mineral Substances' is hereby revoked.

By virtue of the authority vested in me as the President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows: