Executive Order 7894—Delegating Certain Powers to the Attorney General Under the Trading With the Enemy Act
May 23, 1938
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 5 (a) of the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 411, 415), I hereby authorize and direct the Attorney General of the United States to exercise all power and authority conferred upon the President by section 12 of the said act, as amended.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
The White House,
May 23, 1938.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7894—Delegating Certain Powers to the Attorney General Under the Trading With the Enemy Act Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/371840