Herbert Hoover: “I feel it would be desirable to make a change in the Commission in the matter of the position held by you and I should…”

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

It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.

While these features in the Wagner and the Garner bills are not in the form and are not as well safeguarded as they should be, they are in line with major objectives I have been advocating.

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.