8340 - Exemption of Frank E. Gass From Compulsory Retirement for Age
          Signed: February 8, 1940
          Note: This Executive order was not received for publication in
          the Federal Register.

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Executive Order 8340, February 8, 1940

Exemption of Frank E. Gass from compulsory Retirement for age.

WHEREAS in my judgment, the public interest requires that Frank E. Gass,
correspondence clerk, Bureau of International Exchanges, Smithsonian
Institution, who, during the current month, 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 said Frank E. Gass from compulsory retirement for
age for a period of one year ending February 28, 1941.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The White House
February 8, 1940