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Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1929, to March 4, 1933. A member of the Republican Party, Hoover was born in Iowa but later moved to California. Before his presidency, he served as the Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928, where he focused on promoting economic growth and efficiency. Hoover was also known for his humanitarian efforts during World War I, leading relief efforts in Europe and earning a reputation as a skilled administrator.
YOU MAY WISH to announce the fact that from the first of the year up to my announcement of your organization and its program the amount of hoarding estimated by the Federal Reserve Board after making allowance for seasonal changes was two…
Warning is given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated, under the penalties prescribed by sections 106, 107, and 145 of chapter 4, title 18, United States Code, or by section 10 of the Migratory Bird Conservation…
Executive Order No. 3672, dated May 8, 1922, reserving certain therein-described land in Alaska for town-site purposes, is hereby revoked, in so far as it applies to tract 32, containing 140.24 acres, shown on a supplemental plat of…
The lands involved are an addition to the Long Lake Migratory Bird Refuge, which is being acquired under authority of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of February 18, 1929.
It is unlawful within this reservation to hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or kill any wild animal or bird of any kind whatever, to take or destroy the nests or eggs of any wild bird, to occupy or use any part of the reservation, or…
I am delighted that the Congress is earnestly taking up the reorganization of the Federal machinery.
I hope it will be done with such expedition as to give prompt relief to the taxpayers.
My suggestion for the past 5 years has been that the responsibility should be lodged with the Executive with the right of Congress to review the actions taken.
Miss Ann Halloran may be appointed to the position of stenographer in the Veterans' Administration without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service rules.
No incident and no part in these great events, which have echoed and reechoed throughout the world for a century and a half, can be separated from the name and the dominant leadership of George Washington.
The ceremonial of commemorating the founder of our country is one of the most solemn that either an individual or a nation ever performs.
To you more than anyone else we entrust the translation of Washington to our children.
From the inspiration and the ideals which gave birth to this Nation, there has come the largest measure of liberty that man has yet devised.
It is the memory and the spirit of the greatest man of our race which pervades these grounds.
Slander fell harmless before him, sham hung its head in shame, folly did not risk to look him in the face, corruption slunk from his presence, cowardice dared not show its quaking knees.
I thank you cordially for bringing to my attention the purpose of American Jews, under the auspices of the Jewish National Fund, to plant a forest of pines and eucalyptus trees in Palestine, as a living memorial to George Washington.
The part which he played in the creation of our institutions has brought daily harvest of happiness to hundreds of millions of humanity.
It is an occasion for looking back to our past, for taking stock of our present and, in the light of both, setting the compass for our future.
It is a national shrine, the very name of which swells our hearts with pride and gratitude.
Washington had courage without excitement, determination without passion.
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