The President's News Conference
06/19/1931
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All the Federal officials who were known to have been engaged in those practices have either resigned or been removed.
It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in section 5 of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388-389), that the trust period on all...
The committee makes charges against two present Federal officials but not over patronage questions.
I have asked the Department of Justice to consider the report of the Senate committee on Federal patronage in the South.