Herbert Hoover: “They may be for other purposes than that.”

This order shall be effective from July 1, 1932.

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 36; U.S. Code, title 16, sec. 473), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that lands within the Toiyabe National Forest…

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

Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.