Herbert Hoover: “When there is a question pending over the world's economic life, the actual realization of it is much less severe on us…”

I earnestly hope that this may be done.

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

One never makes a statement like that.

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