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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 27, 1930

It is a great pity to have you walk all around the town and come here and then I have nothing.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 27, 1930

We are issuing a report that we have received from the committee that was formed to expedite construction work in public utilities, but you will get that outside, and I don't need to read it to you.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1930

Due honor should be paid his memory as a man of wonderful character as well as a poet of universal appeal.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1930

It is a vital movement to establish a national organization for young American singers, composers and writers.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 26, 1930

I wish to take this opportunity to endorse so fine an effort and to urge all music loving Americans to lend their support in making it a permanent national institution.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1930

It should be understood that the unprecedented drive now in progress for new legislation and for expansion of established services which increase expenditure beyond the budget, only in a small percent originates with Members of Congress or…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1930

We have enough resources to take care of the budget and such necessities as marginal cases of disability among veterans and the speeding up of public works that we have undertaken to assist employment and some proposals of lesser…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1930

Inasmuch as H. Percival Dodge was appointed in the Diplomatic Service on February 16, 1899, as third secretary of the embassy at Berlin; was promoted through the several classes; was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 24, 1930

I hope that the people at home will realize that the Government cannot undertake every worthy social, economic, military, and naval expansion, increases in pay to Government employees, expanded pension systems, or public improvement…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 22, 1930

The thought behind the plan of having the school building constructed entirely by the mountaineers was that the men would gain an experience which would enable them to make their own homes more comfortable by changes and additions which…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 22, 1930

Financed by President Hoover and a few of his friends and built by the men of the mountains under the direction of a trained constructor.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 21, 1930

Even though many may not actually enter public life, it would be strange if they did not benefit from a thorough understanding of the problems of government and of our relation to other peoples.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 21, 1930

The need for good men in Government does not grow less and in the hands of inspiring teachers the work of this school should leave a lasting impression upon the lives of promising young men at the critical time when they are engaged in…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 21, 1930

We have a right to look to our universities for the training of leadership and I sincerely hope that the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, reared as it is upon the historic background of a University which has played…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Feb 20, 1930

And the Lehlbach plan put no penalties on the minimum employees at all because they have exactly the same situation they had before; there was a series of adjustments in it which gave a retirement annuity based upon the amount of money…

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