The willingness of our people to accept this added burden in these times in order impregnably to establish the credit of the Federal Government is a great tribute to their wisdom and courage.

The Government will encourage and foster the development of privately owned and operated radio facilities in such a manner that in time of war or similar national emergency there shall be available the most effective system for the…

While many of the taxes are not as I desired, the bill will effect the great major purpose of assurance to the country and the world of the determination of the American people to maintain their finances and their currency on a sound basis.

No department shall erect a new station in the proximity of an existing government station, unless the same is incapable of rendering to such department the service that it requires.

There is little need for me to express the gratitude which I know the whole country holds for this great service now added to a life of long devotion to public welfare.

No department shall close a station no longer needed by it which is serving other Government departments without first making arrangements in respect to such service that are satisfactory to the departments being served.

I am indeed personally under great obligation to you for your cooperation and great accomplishments in many of our most important governmental problems of the past three years.

It is estimated that altogether over 10 million individual depositors and borrowers have been benefited by the margins provided by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to these banks.

The review of the work of the Corporation showed that in the 14 weeks of its life loans of about $500 million were authorized to something like 4,000 banks, agricultural credit corporations, life insurance companies, and other financial…

And bank failures which amounted to nearly 100 a week when the Corporation began are now down to about the casualties of normal times.

They also discussed methods further to coordinate all economic agencies engaged in assistance to business, employment, and agriculture.

The enactment of the legislation which has been recommended creating the system of home loan discount banks.

Both of these committees to function in much the same way as the Interstate Commerce Commission now acts in passing upon loans to railroads.

That the masters of such vessels, and the agents, assistant agents, inspectors, and wardens of the Bureau of Fisheries are hereby designated as officials to exercise all powers of search and seizure

That a patrol be maintained in the territorial waters of the United States and the high seas, including Bering Sea, extending westerly from the territorial waters of the United States and Canada

Mrs. Gladys L. Knight may be appointed to an existing vacancy in the rating of junior typist, Grade CAF-1, at $1,260 per annum, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., without regard to the civil-service act or rules.

The tribute which you and the Belgian people are paying on Decoration Day to the memory of those American soldiers and sailors who gave their lives for the cause of justice and whose bodies rest in Belgium, echoes and resounds in every…

I and my fellow countrymen in dedicating this day to our own dead will be keenly mindful of your own country's great sacrifice and will bend our heads in silent prayer for Belgium's heroic dead.