There is one thing in the present appropriation bills that we must not overlook--one reason for expedition.

Now, if you combine all of those into the calendar year 1932 as to what the total, direct and indirect, construction expenditures will amount to--somewhere from $750 million to $775 million.

As I have said before, that compares with the rate of about $275 million before the depression.

That is not in the nature of compromise, because it all implies the abandonment of all charitable appropriations of all kinds and cutting out one of the primary difficulties which has arisen in the drought territory, and that is the lack…

Embassies, legations, and other missions are hereby authorized to follow the instructions pertaining to citizenship set forth in Article X of the Consular Regulations.

It is not the amount we are worrying about--it is the question of important principle concerned.

Our American system requires that municipal, county, and State governments shall use their own resources and credit before seeking such assistance from the Federal Treasury.

My own conviction is strongly that if we break down this sense of responsibility, of individual generosity to individual, and mutual self-help in the country in times of national difficulty and if we start appropriations of this character…

If we break down this sense of responsibility of individual generosity to individual and mutual self-help in the country in times of national difficulty and if we start appropriations of this character we have not only impaired something…

The help being daily extended by neighbors, by local and national agencies, by municipalities, by industry and a great multitude of organizations throughout the country today is many times any appropriation yet proposed.

The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self-help in the community.

The Red Cross officials, whose long devoted service and experience is unchallenged, inform me this morning that, except for the minor incidents of any emergency organization, no one is going hungry and no one need go hungry or cold.

The American people are doing their job today.

The whole business situation would be greatly strengthened by the prompt completion of the necessary legislation of this session of Congress and thereby the unemployment problem would be lessened, the drought area indirectly benefited and…

I should like to share in person in paying honor to such a useful and distinguished citizen, whose work as scientific researcher, teacher, and author has done so much to forward the attack upon the problem of cancer in particular and of…

Such a career is a service and an inspiration to humanity, and deserves the tribute of public praise.

I thank you warmly for your kind invitation to attend the testimonial dinner in honor of Dr. James Ewing on January 31st, and deeply regret that my duties here do not permit me to be present.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. 325-326), that the trust period on allotments made to Indians of the Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak., which trust period expires during the calendar…