A sound and stable United States is a contribution to the well-being of the world.

The government draws upon the personnel of its Foreign Service throughout the world for much in the way of information, negotiation, and tactful relationships.

The New Year will bring many problems, but if we at home and you abroad maintain our industry, courage, and confidence in the principles and institutions which this country exemplifies, we can do much to promote economic recovery and…

His passing is a personal loss to me.

Mrs. Yetta B. Floyd may be appointed to the position of clerk-typist in the Bureau of Prohibition, Department of Justice, without regard to the civil-service rules.

Port Everglades, Fla., is hereby designated a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 18 (Florida) with headquarters at Tampa, Fla., effective January 1, 1932.

Mrs. Hallie D. Stotler may be appointed to the position of clerk in the Bureau of Prohibition, Department of Justice, without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service rules.

I have stated all this in three different messages.

There has been no attempt to estimate them.

In my message to Congress I suggested that the Engineers continue to administer Rivers and Harbors as in the past.

The Veterans' Administration was a new type of organization in the Government.

Setting up an agency similar to the Veterans' Bureau.

The subject is an old one and now that economy absolutely must be the first order in government it is an appropriate time for Congress to take up the question and bring it to conclusion.

The most constructive direction for economy in Federal expenditure beyond a rigid reduction of appropriations and the resolute opposition to new appropriations lies in the consolidation of Government bureaus and general reorganization of…

I have appointed Mr. Norman Davis, who was formerly the Under Secretary of State, as a member of the delegation to the Disarmament Conference.

The proposal was that the Shipping Board should return to its function as an advisory and regulatory body and remove all of its administrative functions to the Department of Commerce.

These economies would run into many millions.

Such action would result in the elimination of many expensive agencies and overlap resulting in very great economies.