Herbert Hoover actually said...
And it is hereby ordered, pursuant to public resolution No. 29 of February 14, 1920 (41 Stat. 434), as amended January 21 and December 28, 1922 (42 Stat. 358, 1067), that the above described lands, if otherwise subject to disposition, subject to valid rights, shall be opened to entry under the homestead or desert land laws only by qualified ex-service men of the War with Germany, under the terms and conditions of such resolutions, and the regulations issued thereunder, for a period of 91 days, beginning with the official filing of the plat of resurvey and thereafter to appropriation under any public land law applicable thereto, by the general public.
10/24/1929