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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 18, 1929

We will probably have some compensation in the reduction of public debts and some other items.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 18, 1929

Those of 1929 fiscal year were just about an even billion, and for 1933 it is estimated at $1,148 million.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 18, 1929

The 1926 expenditures on Army, Navy, public works, and Post Office deficit is $790 million.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 18, 1929

I hope to name new commissions for the whole of the next 4 years, for to me it is the necessary step in determining the fact on any public question, and the only basis of constructive action is to be found in the first determination of the…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 18, 1929

I will recommend to Congress in the next session, or as soon as they reconvene, that the Federal Government should contribute to the indemnification of those people whose actual fruit, et cetera, has been destroyed through Federal…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 18, 1929

The normal Post Office deficit is increased by the lower rates, increased wages and decreased hours of employment.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 15, 1929

I SHALL be pleased to act as an honorary referee to the field games between the visiting teams of Oxford and Cambridge and the American teams from Princeton and, Cornell, and only regret that my duties here will not permit me to be present…

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 15, 1929

The character building influence of clean sports is such that they deserve every encouragement, and besides that, I should have been glad of the opportunity to welcome these fine young men visiting our shores.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 14, 1929

Through these efforts we may establish to the farmer an equal opportunity in our economic system with other industry.

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Herbert Hoover
@herberthoover· Republican · CA· Jul 14, 1929

In selecting this Board I have sought for suggestions from the many scores of farmers' cooperatives and other organizations and yours were the names most universally commended.

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