Herbert Hoover: “I have the honor to transmit herewith the Budget of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1931.”

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

I am glad to see the adoption by both the Senate and the House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.

The reductions must be real and positive.

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…