The measures of assistance that the Farm Board and the other agencies of the Federal Government can and should undertake are being determined.

I have also decided to appoint General [Ben H.] Fuller to Commandant of the Marine Corps on the recommendation of Secretary Adams.

It, of course, gives me a great deal of pleasure to promote so brilliant a soldier to that position.

I have some questions on the drought.

HERBERT HOOVER The White House, August 4, 1930.

The right of any woman to become a naturalized citizen of the United States shall not be denied or abridged because of her sex or because she is a married woman.

A woman citizen of the United States shall not cease to be a citizen of the United States by reason of her marriage after the passage of the Act unless she makes a formal renunciation of her citizenship before a court having jurisdiction…

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in section 5 of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388-389), that the trust period on the allotments made to Indians of the Klamath River Reservation in California, which trust period…

No fee should be collected for passports issued to officials or employees of the United States proceeding abroad in the discharge of their official duties or to members of their immediate families.

ON BEHALF of the Government and people of the United States in my own name, I offer Your Majesty hearty congratulations on this auspicious anniversary.

That any woman who marries a citizen of the United States after the passage of the Act, or any woman whose husband is naturalized after the passage of the Act, shall not become a citizen of the United States by reason of such marriage or…

After wide consultation with interested leaders, I have decided to undertake the organization of an adequate investigation and study on a nationwide scale of the problems presented in home ownership and home building, with the view to the…

One of the important questions is finance.

I do indeed appreciate this heartening message of approval and support.

Thank you very much for your more than kind letter of June 13th, with its interesting enclosures.

The Conference will deal with the whole broad question of home construction and home ownership.

The expansion and betterment of homes in its bearing upon comfort, increasing standards of living, and economic and social stability, is of outstanding importance.

The present depression has given emphasis to the fact that the credit system in home building is not as soundly organized as other branches of credit.