In the United States a major responsibility rests upon the shoulders of our Chiefs of Police.

If the police had the vigilant, universal backing of public opinion in their communities, if they had the implacable support of the prosecuting authorities and the courts, if our criminal laws in their endeavor to protect the innocent did…

I look forward confidently to the day when the moral forces of every community will rally to your support in the fight against crime everywhere.

I wonder at times that they maintain the vigilance and courage they do against the odds with which they have to contend.

The Chiefs of Police occupy a position of high command in that service.

There is a sentimentalism in some people which makes popular heroes out of criminals which needs replacement by a sentimentalism that makes a popular hero of the policeman for the courage and devotion he shows in protection of our citizens.

The importance of high standards of product and professional practice in pharmacy may well be more generally recognized, and Pharmacy Week is a commendable educational effort to that end.

Pharmacists are the indispensable allies of the physicians.

I EXTEND to you and your fellow countrymen my sincere felicitations on this anniversary of the Republic of China.

We are not doing anything revolutionary at the moment.

There could be no greater step taken in the prevention of war itself.

It is a movement of national assurance and of unity of action in an American way to assist business, employment, and agriculture.

Our difficulty is a diffusion of resources and the primary need is to mobilize them in such a way as to restore, in a number of localities, the confidence of the banker in his ability to continue normal business and to dispel any…

The real estate people have been suggesting a central mortgage rediscount bank as a permanent institution but that committee is not in agreement and have not completed their arguments.

There is no justification for any such situation in view of the strength of our banking system and the strong position of our Federal Reserve System.

Our problem in this respect is one of such adjustment during the period of depression as will at the same time aid our own and world recovery.

The prolongation of the depression by the succession of events in Europe, affecting as they have both commodity and security prices, has produced in some localities in the United States an apprehension wholly unjustified in view of the…

But there is no finality to their plans.