Herbert Hoover: “During the past 10 years a possible grouping of the roads so as to carry out the law has been under constant discussion.”

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

The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its transmission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations…

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

Enlisted men of the Marine Corps having established their special qualifications in the use of the arm or arms which they are required to use, under such regulations and conditions as are now, or may hereafter be, prescribed by the…