Ninety-one million five hundred twenty-six thousand seven hundred forty dollars.

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1931.

The result of which is to impose this sum upon the regular budget and in effect increase emergency relief by that amount.

Executive Order No. 5349 of May 12, 1930, reserving and setting apart, for use of the Department of Agriculture as a refuge and breeding ground for wild animals and birds, Bird or Hat Island, located about three miles north of Carrington…

Nearly eighty million dollars of the expenditures under these appropriations were included in the estimates of expenditures during this year contained in the Budget for the fiscal year 1932.

Less than two million represent new items.

Our official life would no doubt be confined to those things that furnish the raw material for news or entertainment, humor, satire, exposure, wit, eccentricities, combats, attacks, or fights and failures in government or politics.

The Gridiron Club platform would also contain constructive planks—for instance, it would insist that there must be more humor, more satire, more within government.

Indeed these are times of great apprehensions and unrest in the world at large.

Persons formerly employed abroad as United States diplomatic or consular officers of career or foreign service officers of career for the period of at least four years, for service in the Department of State as administrative officers or…

I have endeavored to envisage what sort of government we would have, if our government was conducted so as to give full expression and weight to the matters which seem of interest on these Gridiron occasions.

The Federal Government can cooperate in assistance in disaster with community and industrial action and the organization of local responsibility.

Each increase in the facilities for communication between our countries brings ever more to our peoples the realization of being brought closer together and so overcomes more and more the barriers of geographical distance and fosters that…

If their funds are not sufficient to carry out their work, they are quite prepared to appeal to the country for further funds, and I have no doubt they can command whatever funds are necessary.

That is all I have for this occasion.

Great and Good Friend: I am happy to avail of the new link between our countries constituted by the inauguration of an air mail service between them to send to Your Excellency and the people of Brazil my greetings and best wishes for…

Mr. President, allow me to take this opportunity to recall, with the greatest pleasure and appreciation, the most cordial reception and sincere hospitality with which I was received by the Government and people of Brazil in 1928 upon the…

They are finding no difficulty in charity responses in any section of the country to take care of whatever situation arises there.