Such activity is an important supplement to new construction and is also desirable as a measure to promote employment.

No appreciation I could express would even feebly represent the gratitude of the American people for your whole life of wonderful public service.

I must, of course, accept it.

I know of no American retiring from public service with such a sense of affection and devotion of the whole people.

I trust that your convention may be fruitful in sound plans and policies of such an important factor, both of relief and recovery.

You have performed a real public service and I wish to express my personal appreciation.

The sixty-eight million policy holders of the country with policies aggregating one hundred nine billion dollars, represent a major stratum in the very bed-rock of our economic life.

I am informed that more than half, or fifty-four per cent of the people of the United States, own life insurance.

I must, of course, accept your wish in the matter.

Officials of the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department charged with the prevention of smuggling, on urgent matters involving attempts to smuggle merchandise and prohibited articles into the United States.

Road building by the Federal Government and the States and municipalities is a major factor in unemployment relief.

Consular agents are not authorized to address the Department of State directly.

I am interested to learn of the plans for Life Insurance Day to focus attention on the part which insurance plays in the economic life of the nation, as well as in the assurance of individual and family stability.

Consular officers are particularly cautioned not to enter into any contentions that can be avoided, either with their countrymen or with the authorities or nationals of the country.

I SHALL BE OBLIGED if you will present my cordial greetings to the annual convention of the American Road Builders Association.

Consular officers should countenance and protect American citizens before the authorities of the country in all cases in which, they may be injured or oppressed; but at the same time they should impress upon such citizens their obligation…

Your Association has performed a very useful function in coordinating engineering, manufacturing, equipment and industrial aspects of the program.

All letters addressed in the care of a consular office should be held at the disposal of the addressees for the period prescribed by the laws of the country in which the consular office is situated.