Executive Order 6974—Exemption of Jacob L. Nuber from Compulsory Retirement for Age

Whereas section 204 of the act of June 30, 1932 (ch. 314, 47 Stat. 382, 404; 5 U.S.C., sec. 692b), provides: "On and after July 1, 1932, no person rendering civilian service in any branch or service of the United States Government or the municipal government of the District of Columbia who shah have reached the retirement age prescribed for automatic separation from the service, applicable to such person, shall be continued in such service, notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the contrary: Provided , That the President may, by Executive Order, exempt from the provisions of this section any person when, in his judgment, the public interest so requires: * * *"; And Whereas the public interest requires that Jacob L. Nuber, Chief of the Printing and Binding Section, Administrative Division, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, who was 70 years of age on February 26, 1933, and who was exempted from compulsory retirement for two periods of 1 year each by Executive Orders Nos. 6013 and 6615, dated February 3, 1933, and February 26, 1934, respectively, be further exempted from the provisions of this section and continued in the service until March 1, 1936; Now, Therefore , by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid statute, I do hereby exempt Jacob L. Nuber from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until March 1, 1936. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The White House, February 21, 1935.