Herbert Hoover: “Respectfully, HERBERT HOOVER”

This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power of defense through decreases in the power of the attack.

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

These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.

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