I am very proud to have had something to do with it.

It is, after all, only the peopling of the wilderness which gives permanency to the form of an ordered society.

Again, mere survival calls for a new pioneering on our part.

To this you must add many other firsts—the first corn raised in Kentucky, the first peach trees and apple trees planted, the first wheat fields, the first grist mill and, perhaps most important of all, the first spinning wheel.

You will be known as veterans of a new kind of war.

Francis I. Biddle is hereby appointed as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board at a salary of $10,000 a year.

To obtain improved cooperation among Federal agencies engaged in lending Government funds, either directly or indirectly, the President has created a Loan Committee.

It is important that the Federal Government encourage States which are ready to take this progressive step.

Unemployment insurance will be in the program.

I hereby approve said amendment and modify my previous approval of the Code of Fair Competition for the Alcoholic Beverages Importing Industry to include an approval of said Code in its entirety as hereby amended.

We must not allow this type of insurance to become a dole through the mingling of insurance and relief.

Our first task is to get the economic system to function so that there will be a greater general security.

Unemployment insurance must be set up with the purpose of decreasing rather than increasing unemployment.

There is tragedy in growing old without means of support.

I am happy that there is so much interest in the problem of economic security.

Old age is at once the most certain, and for many people the most tragic of all hazards.

It is ordered that the following-described land be, and it is hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, entry, permit, or lease and reserved as a source of material for the construction and maintenance of public…

It is hereby ordered that the tract of public land in Alaska lying within the following-described boundaries be reserved and set apart for the joint use and occupancy of the Department of Agriculture and the Alaska Game Commission.