Executive Order 8896—Exemption of Nelson S. Thompson From Compulsory Retirement for Age

Whereas, in my judgment, the public interest requires that Nelson S. Thompson, Chief, Mechanical Engineering Section, Office of the Supervising Architect Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, who was exempted from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1941, by Executive Order No. 8402 of May 7, 1940, 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 Nelson S. Thompson from compulsory retirement for age for a period of one year ending September 30, 1942.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
September 12, 1941.