We know that such ideas are anathema to the American mind, and no man could be elected a county commissioner on such a platform.

Mrs. Ida K. Marsh may be employed for one year in an appropriate position in the Bureau of the Census, without regard to the civil service rules.

The main point I wish to make is that it does not mean any increase in appropriations or expenditures in the next fiscal year.

This order is issued on the recommendation of the Secretary of Commerce, and with the restriction that it does not confer upon Mrs. Marsh any status for subsequent employment in the classified service.

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The Executive order of February 3, 1927, is amended and the following is promulgated for the information and guidance of all concerned, effective immediately.

I AM GLAD to learn that you and Mrs. Markham are celebrating your seventy-eighth birthday together today, and I hope that through many more years you may enjoy the happiness which you have so freely given to others.

This order shall be effective only during the employment of Lieutenant Jett and Messrs. Ring and Cogley under the Federal Radio Commission and shall automatically end with the termination of their service with that commission.

Miss Coons has rendered satisfactory and efficient service as a clerk under temporary appointment and has qualified in the civil service examination for junior typist.

Her rating, however, has not been reached for certification for permanent appointment from the District of Columbia.

It is a pleasure both to address a great audience gathered to do honor to the pioneer women and to support my friend, the Secretary of War, who, to your and my misfortune, cannot yet leave his room from recent illness, from which happily…

But it is my duty to introduce a product of the pioneer woman of Oklahoma who has risen high in the councils of the Nation--and high in the esteem of the whole country--the Secretary of War, Patrick J. Hurley.

Under the authority of sections 177 and 179 of the Revised Statutes, the Assistant Secretary of War appointed under the act of Congress approved July 2, 1926, is hereby authorized and directed, pending further orders, to perform the duties…

There are few men of the West of my generation who did not know the pioneer woman in his own mother, and who does not rejoice to know that her part in building that great civilization is to have such beautiful recognition.

These expenditures have been rendered necessary to finally overcome the long delays in provision of quarters for Federal activities during recovery from the war, and are imperative for the more economical carrying on of the Federal…

We have determined to send up the Naval Arms Treaty immediately upon its receipt here in Washington.

My other piece of news is the appointment of Mr. Frederick Huff Payne of Massachusetts as Assistant Secretary of War.

It was their insistence which made the schools and the churches.