Herbert Hoover: “The Navy Department shows an increase of about $25 million.”

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.

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

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

The armaments of the world have grown up in general mutual relation to each other.