"The present offices will serve all purposes for the next few years, and I am much more anxious to expedite the erection of the departmental buildings, which are so urgently needed."
"I shall appoint someone from the Intermountain States to the vacancy."
"The steel companies inform me this morning that the effect of the drive is already showing in their orders, which are beyond their expectations."
"I THANK Your Excellency in my own name and on behalf of my fellow countrymen for your courteous new year greetings which are most heartily reciprocated."
"I want to take this occasion to wish you all a happy new year, and to express my appreciation for the fine cooperation that I have had during this 8 months from all of you."
"The Governor of the Panama Canal is hereby empowered to grant pardons, paroles, and reprieves for offenses against the laws, orders, and regulations of the Canal Zone, and to commute sentences and rem..."
"It is hereby ordered that the SW. ¼ sec. 1, S. sec. 2, all of sec. 11, W. ½ sec. 12, NW. ¼ sec. 13, and N. ½ sec. 14, T. 49 N., R. 9 W., New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, be and the same are he..."
"I want to express that feeling to you and to wish you the happiest new year."
"We have tried to experiment now for about 8 months, a rather fundamental line of at least a departure from previous months, and I think it has worked out satisfactorily."
"I believe the enforcement of the law must be built up step by step in the spirit of the men who have the problem in their hands; that it must be built up in the spirit of the people."
"The Law Enforcement Commission has been investigating the different phases of this problem with view to arriving at some sort of a broad and effective solution."
"The Federal Government obviously can have just one object in view, and that is to secure an adequate enforcement of the law, whatever it is."
"It is hereby ordered that the following described tract of land in the State of Washington adjoining the Columbia National Forest, namely, SE ¼ NE ¼ sec. 24, T. 4 N., R. 4 E., Willamette Meridian, con..."
"I have been very glad to sign the bill authorizing the construction over a term of years of further hospitals for war veterans."
"One or two turkeys already in."
"Well, I have a complete blank on this occasion, and I don't think that we will bother to have a conference on Tuesday."
"You will want to go away for Christmas, and I will be too lazy, so I wish to take this occasion to wish you a merry Christmas, and will have a chance to wish you a happy new year later on."
"I have none. The house is making the usual preparation of green and things that belong to the season."