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Executive Order 8985
Establishing the Office of Censorship and Prescribing Its Functions and Duties
Signed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Dec 19, 1941.
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EO 9631, September 28, 1945
National Archives disposition tables cover January 8, 1937 to January 19, 2017.