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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 29, 1929

Please say for me to the members of the Zionist Organization of America, gathered in annual convention at Detroit on June 30th, that I pray their deliberations may be, as always, richly fruitful in that spiritual wisdom for which the…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 28, 1929

Nevertheless, all men of good-will must press steadily toward that goal if civilization is to survive.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 28, 1929

In this forward march of the human spirit, poets lead the way with their visions of the ideal, and therefore you do well, in your memorial to Robert Burns, to stress his aspiration toward the time when 'Man to Man, the world o'er, shall…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 28, 1929

Mrs. Ida A. Coffey may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Commerce without reference to the provisions of the civil service rules.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 28, 1929

Mrs. Edna May may be appointed as an Operative in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing without compliance with the requirements of the civil service rules.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 28, 1929

On this second anniversary of your transatlantic flight to France, I wish personally and upon behalf of the Nation to congratulate you and your gallant comrades upon that triumph of courage and skill over the resisting forces of Nature…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 28, 1929

The road to world peace is through a maze of all the tangled complexities of human nature, and may be traversed only by dealing with them in a practical spirit and with much patience.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 27, 1929

We will not as I want to wait until the new Director of the Budget comes on the job to learn something of his duties.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 27, 1929

That matter is in the hands of the Secretary of War, so you will have to ask him.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 27, 1929

I have one question that I can't very well answer without making trouble for other people.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 26, 1929

I THANK YOU for your message and deeply appreciate the expressions of encouragement and support adopted by the Virginia Republican Convention.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 24, 1929

As a matter of some background in connection with the budget for next year, the discussions of which have been going on, the circular sent out did not amplify the situation from the public point of view-purely an interdepartmental circular.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 24, 1929

I have one question asking if I am going to take a summer home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the answer is that I am not.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 24, 1929

The difficulties over the respective water rights of the different States have served to prevent development in a large way for nearly a quarter of a century.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 24, 1929

It expedites the Boulder Canyon development because it clarifies the difficulties which have held up all development, and there is only one point still left open, and that is the relation of Arizona to the compact.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jun 24, 1929

The compact was originally, signed 5 years ago by the seven States subject to ratification by their legislatures.

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