In selecting this Board I have sought for suggestions from the many scores of farmers' cooperatives and other organizations and yours were the names most universally commended.
Editor's note · Context
Remarks at the First Meeting of the Federal Farm Board.
Share & report
More from Herbert Hoover
The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world.
Both of these committees to function in much the same way as the Interstate Commerce Commission now acts in passing upon loans to railroads.
We must make headway against the mutual fear and friction arising out of war armament which kill human confidence throughout the world.
The review of the work of the Corporation showed that in the 14 weeks of its life loans of about $500 million were authorized to something like 4,000 banks, agricultural credit corporations, life insurance companies, and other financial…





