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DS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, White House letterhead, May 11, 1935. Official typed “Memorandum for Secretary Ickes,” which reads: “Will you please proceed at once to have vacated space in the Munitions Building, now occupied by War Department files, aggregating about 100,000 square feet, for use of the Division of Applications and Information. The files to be moved will have to be placed in rented space to be selected by your office, cost of moving and rental of space to be borne by the D.A.I. This supersedes previous instructions to place the Federal Trade Commission in the space in the Munitions Building when vacated.” Signed at the conclusion in bold ink by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The upper left bears secretarial notations, “War Dept., General, Federal Trade, D.A.I., Moving – Payment of Bldgs DC., Munitions,” and the lower right bears a faint stamp, “Please Return to Government Space Control For File.” In fine condition, with light soiling, and torn file holes to the top edge.
Addressed to Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, one of the Roosevelt administration’s principal New Deal administrators, the memorandum reflects the rapid expansion of the federal bureaucracy during the Great Depression. Roosevelt orders the reassignment of approximately 100,000 square feet within Washington’s Munitions Building, constructed during World War I and occupied by War Department offices and records, for use by the newly created Division of Applications and Information, part of the growing administrative infrastructure supporting New Deal relief and public works programs.
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