Herbert Hoover: “I have an intense sympathy for your difficulties.”

The reductions must be real and positive.

Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'

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

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