I suppose this shipment of gold is for that purpose.
It is no different than any other commercial transaction, so far as I know.
Goods have been bought here and payment made for them, and our people have bought goods in considerable amounts in Russi...
That makes necessary setting up some method for payment.
I assume that is for the purpose of making payment on goods that have been purchased here.
It doubled the appropriation that I proposed for the Shipping Board and I think added $6,000,000 or $8,000,000 to the Ar...
Of course, according to my best judgment, there should be added to the sums I have already mentioned $65,000,000 that ha...
There is always danger that the Congress will be too liberal in the matter of appropriations.
But I think if it is understood that this is a plan toward which the Navy is to work in the future as funds become avail...
There are some letters being received here at my office against the building program and some communications are being r...
No, I have given you the wrong number.
I have understood that there was something of a propaganda under way against any Navy building program.
I am not, of course, an expert at all on what is the type of ship that we need most, but I am advised by the Navy that i...
My position, as I suggested the other day, was fully set out in my message, wherein I stated that I thought the property...
I think it has already been announced that I appointed Colonel Latrobe to be my Aide.
It seems to me that the decision about that would be this—that this is something that the United States Government ought...
I think it would be the best plan, so far as I can judge, to proceed to do this work in accordance with the present law;...
The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would th...