Address to the Gridiron Club.
04/12/1929
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There can be no doubt as to its most serious character in many localities, and that unless relieved there will be real suffering.
General MacArthur is recommended by Secretary Hurley, and it, of course, gives me a great deal of pleasure to promote so brilliant a soldier...
But there will be no stone left unturned by the Federal Government in its assistance to local authorities to deal with the situation.
The measures of assistance that the Farm Board and the other agencies of the Federal Government should undertake have not yet been determine...