Herbert Hoover actually said...

IN COOPERATION with Secretary Doak, I have appointed Mr. John R. Alpine of New York as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor in charge of the United States Employment Service activities to include the application at once of the emergency appropriation of $500,0001made, at my suggestion, at the end of the last session of Congress over and above the usual $380,000 per annum.

03/12/1931

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