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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1932

This measure I am signing today, together with the additional capital provided for the Federal land banks and the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, will so strengthen our whole credit structure and open the channels of…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1932

The fine spirit of patriotic nonpartisanship shown in carrying out the emergency program is, I know, appreciated by the whole country.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1932

The gradual credit contraction during the past 8 months arising indirectly from causes originating in foreign countries and continued domestic deflation, but more directly from hoarding, has been unquestionably the major factor in…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1932

It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4426, dated April 19, 1926, which withdrew the public lands in T. 1 S., R. 2 E., Salt Lake meridian, Utah, pending a resurvey, be, and the same is hereby, revoked.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1932

I am confident that the further nonpartisan measures of reconstruction to assist the earlier payment of depositors in closed banks, to apply rigid economy in Government expenditures, to balance the budget, to reform railway regulation…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1932

Mrs. Wanda Coolidge Carver may be appointed as under clerk, grade CAF-1, $1,260 per annum, navy yard, Washington, D. C., in lieu of an existing vacancy in the rating of typewriter, grade CAF-1, without regard to the civil-service act or…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1932

It liberalizes existing provisions with regard to eligibility of collateral and thereby enables the Federal Reserve banks to furnish accommodations to many banks on sound assets heretofore unavailable for rediscount purposes.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 25, 1932

The Bankruptcy Act has proved to be defective and to allow a great many loopholes for exploitation of both the bankrupt and the creditors-a great deal of injustice on both sides.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 25, 1932

These reforms ought to result, if enacted, in the saving of a good many million of dollars of creditors and bankrupts and in a great deal of direct economies in the administration of justice.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 25, 1932

Two years ago I directed a searching investigation by the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce into the whole condition in bankruptcy administration.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1932

YOU MAY WISH to announce the fact that from the first of the year up to my announcement of your organization and its program the amount of hoarding estimated by the Federal Reserve Board after making allowance for seasonal changes was two…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1932

It is unlawful within this reservation to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any wild animal or bird of any kind whatever, to take or destroy the nests or eggs of any wild bird, to occupy or use any part of the reservation, or…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1932

It is hereby ordered that the following-described area in Burleigh and Kidder Counties, N. Dak., be, and the same is hereby, reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture as a refuge and breeding ground for birds and…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1932

The lands involved are an addition to the Long Lake Migratory Bird Refuge, which is being acquired under authority of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1932

Warning is given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated, under the penalties prescribed by sections 106, 107, and 145 of chapter 4, title 18, United States Code, or by section 10 of the Migratory Bird Conservation…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1932

the very first obligation upon the National resources is the undiminished financial support of the public schools

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1932

Executive Order No. 3672, dated May 8, 1922, reserving certain therein-described land in Alaska for town-site purposes, is hereby revoked, in so far as it applies to tract 32, containing 140.24 acres, shown on a supplemental plat of…

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