PLEASE EXTEND my cordial greetings to the Kiwanis International Convention and my hope that the Kiwanis movement everywhere may continue to advance those high ideals of public helpfulness and service which means so much to the progress of…

It takes time to plan public works, to legislate, to finance them, to assemble materials, to enter contracts so that the second half of the year promises even greater results--particularly is this true for our Federal appropriations and…

We have hitherto regarded great business depressions with their inevitable train of unemployment and hardships as an inevitable fever which must run it course, and in former times if public works were undertaken in alleviation of…

Mrs. Hoover and I wish to convey to you our deepest sympathy and our trust that you may be given strength in this, the greatest trial which can come to you.

I was greatly shocked this morning to learn of the death of your husband who has been my friend over twenty-five years.

I am shocked and grieved at the death of my friend, your father, Representative Stephen G. Porter, and I offer you my deepest sympathy in your bereavement.

The public school system is America's distinctive and magnificent ally of the home in this most precious trust.

They were splendid.

Our task is to give every child the opportunity to grow up with a healthy body, a trained mind, a disciplined character, a cheerful faith in himself and a devotion to our form of government.

I congratulate you most cordially upon your remarkably interesting and human news reports of the Byrd Antarctic expedition.

He will be long and gratefully remembered for his important services to the Nation, and I gladly bear witness to them of personal knowledge.

I note that the appropriation requested by the Law Enforcement Commission for its work outside of prohibition has failed in the Senate.

Nothing to my mind indicates more clearly the fact that crime is growing in general than the situation which we have in the prisons, both Federal and State, at the present moment.

I do not think that we can abandon that program, and therefore I can't allow the work of the Commission to cease.

I have no doubt that there are private citizens sufficiently anxious for the Nation to know the whole truth as to what constructive remedies may be suggested by so eminent a body of men and women as this Commission, that I shall be able to…

St. Michael, Alaska, is hereby abolished as a port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 31 (Alaska), with headquarters at Juneau, Alaska, effective July 1, 1930.

I have asked them if they will go on and they have agreed to do so.

There is no doubt that the more vigorous enforcement of the Federal laws laterally have had something to do with this increase in prisoners.