Herbert Hoover: “I was greatly shocked this morning to learn of the death of your husband who has been my friend over twenty-five years.”

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

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

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

I propose that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third.