"I recommend that, in order to effect a settlement of these claims in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of State, the Congress, as an act of grace, and without reference to the legal ..."
"The report sketches conditions which called for a comprehensive plan for the entire District of Columbia, as primarily the Nation's capital."
"The report shows the constantly increasing work of the Commission during the nineteen years since its creation, such increase being due to specific legislation by Congress, and calls of the Executive ..."
"In bringing the matter anew to the attention of the present Congress I am hopeful that the action recommended may receive favorable consideration."
"I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, the Eleventh Report of the National Commission of Fine Arts for the period from January 1, 1926, to June 30, 1929."
"Our estimated expenditures for this and the next year are well within our expected receipts."
"The obligations of this stewardship can not be met within the limits of the present appropriation."
"As the custodian of the national forests, national parks, and other public lands the Federal Government is responsible for their protection."
"Our finances are in sound condition."
"With regard to the Boulder Dam project authorized by the act of Congress approved December 21, 1928, the details have not been completed in time to permit of this project being included in the estimat..."
"The importance of the functions devolving upon these two departments in the conduct of our foreign affairs and in law enforcement and the administration of our penal system are of vital concern to the..."
"We are wisely committed to a policy which insures the further progressive reduction of the debt."
"I have the honor to transmit herewith the Budget of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931."
"To raise the standard of their living, to adequately provide for their health and education, and to advance their opportunity for profitable employment are the concern of the Government."
"The foregoing table shows that the total of the estimates of appropriations payable from the Treasury in this Budget is $145,696,000 less than the appropriations for 1930."
"From a defense point of view our forces should be proportioned to national need and should, therefore, to some extent be modified by the prospects of peace, which were never brighter than to-day."
"Our adherence to the International Court is, as now constituted, not the slightest step toward entry into the League of Nations."
"Programs now authorized will carry it to still larger figures in future years."
