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WHEREAS, in my judgment, the public interest requires that Edward B. Russ, Chief of the Stenographic Section, Department of State, who was exempted from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending February 28, 1939, by Executive Order No. 7791 of January 13, 1938, be further exempted from such compulsory retirement for a period of one year:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 204 of the act of June 30, 1932, 47 Stat. 382, 404 (U. S. C., title 5, sec. 715a), I hereby further exempt the said Edward B. Russ from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending February 29, 1940.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

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 * February 11, 1939.