Herbert Hoover: “Please accept my congratulations, and the congratulations of the American people.”

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

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

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

In order to avoid the confusion arising from the fact that there is a national park and a national forest in the State of Virginia bearing the same name, that is 'Shenandoah,' it is hereby ordered that the name of the 'Shenandoah National…