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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.
The American people should understand that current expenditure on strictly military activities of the Army and Navy constitutes the largest military budget of any nation in the world today and at a time when there is less real danger of…
In the matter of Army outlay, I am in agreement with the Secretary of War to set up within the General Staff a commission of leading Army officers to reconsider our whole Army program, to see what services and other outlays have become…
We hope to save materially on naval expenditures by international agreement on naval arms.
The hope of tax reduction lies in large degree in our ability to economize on the military and naval expenditure and still maintain adequate defense.
He removed an untold burden of toil from the backs of men and women for all time.
BY INVENTING the electric lamp Mr. Edison did vastly more than provide a new lamp.
Those of 1929 fiscal year were just about an even billion, and for 1933 it is estimated at $1,148 million.
I will recommend to Congress in the next session, or as soon as they reconvene, that the Federal Government should contribute to the indemnification of those people whose actual fruit, et cetera, has been destroyed through Federal…
We will probably have some compensation in the reduction of public debts and some other items.
The 1926 expenditures on Army, Navy, public works, and Post Office deficit is $790 million.
The burden for the fiscal year 1930 will apparently be at least $150 million.
I hope to name new commissions for the whole of the next 4 years, for to me it is the necessary step in determining the fact on any public question, and the only basis of constructive action is to be found in the first determination of the…
The normal Post Office deficit is increased by the lower rates, increased wages and decreased hours of employment.
The restriction on such land 'solely for park purposes' is hereby removed.
I SHALL be pleased to act as an honorary referee to the field games between the visiting teams of Oxford and Cambridge and the American teams from Princeton and, Cornell, and only regret that my duties here will not permit me to be present…
The character building influence of clean sports is such that they deserve every encouragement, and besides that, I should have been glad of the opportunity to welcome these fine young men visiting our shores.
I know there is not a thinking farmer who does not realize that all this cannot be accomplished by a magic wand or an overnight action.
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.
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