Herbert Hoover: “We will probably have some compensation in the reduction of public debts and some other items.”

My dear Mrs. Bird: I am deeply grieved to learn of the death of your brother, the universally beloved Father Francis P. Duffy.

So much of the order of June 8, 1926, creating Reservoir-Site Reserve No. 17, as affects the lands hereinafter described is hereby revoked

I earnestly hope that this may be done.

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.