Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 8420—Exemption of Frank B. Bourn From Compulsory Retirement for Age

May 28, 1940

Whereas, in my judgment, the public interest requires that Frank B. Bours, Chief of the Supplies and Accounts Division, Office of the Secretary of War, War Department, who was exempted from compulsory retirement for age for periods totaling two years by Executive Orders No. 7863 of April 7, 1938, and No. 8106 of May 3, 1939, 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 Frank B. Bourn from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending June 30, 1941.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
May 28, 1940.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 8420—Exemption of Frank B. Bourn From Compulsory Retirement for Age Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371577

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