Executive Order 8402—Exemption of Nelson S. Thompson From Compulsory Retirement for Age

Whereas, in my judgment, the public interest requires that Nelson S. Thompson, Chief, Mechanical Engineering Section, Office of the Supervising Architect, Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, who, during the month of September, 1940, will reach the retirement age prescribed for automatic separation from the service, applicable to him, be exempted from compulsory retirement for age 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 exempt the said Nelson S. Thompson from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1941.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
May 7, 1940.