Herbert Hoover

It is the intention of the law that these contracts should be used in such fashion as to upbuild and strengthen the merchant marine both for the present and the future.

Again I thank Your Majesty for your message and wish for your country blessings a hundredfold and for Your Majesty happiness and prosperity for many years to come.

My fellow countrymen join me in expressing deep appreciation of Your Majesty's touching message voicing that true and unalterable friendship which unites our two countries.

The reiterated act of placing one's commercial aims before the public in cold type, day after day, compels one to subject his own motives to a criticism as severe as that which he expects from the public scrutiny.

No, I don't think I want to comment on that.

I estimate its ethical value as of equal importance.

I have three categories of questions today.

I am sorry that I cannot be present in person, but I shall be present in spirit to share with you in paying respects and honor to my old friend and great servant of the University, Professor Arthur Martin Cathcart on the completion of his…

I CONGRATULATE you upon the one hundredth anniversary of the Philadelphia Inquirer and likewise all those others who share with you the valuable public service of carrying on its great tradition.

On my behalf please extend to him my congratulations and best wishes for many more years of equally distinguished service.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the act of Congress approved August 1, 1914

Mrs. Willebrandt remained in the administration after March 4, when she wished to go out to the private practice of law, at the request of the Attorney General that she might assist in building up the new steps in contemplation for…

There is absolutely no truth whatever to the stories that have been spread about disagreements between Mr. Mitchell and Mrs. Willebrandt or between myself and Mrs. Willebrandt or anybody in the Government.

Mrs. Willebrandt has sent her resignation to me an hour ago, and I am making an appropriate reply, and we will give you copies of the two letters.

No nation can for long survive the failure of its citizens to respect and obey the laws which they themselves make.

Mrs. Willebrandt has been a most effective official of this Government.

She has made recommendations with regard to arrangements in the Government which have been adopted.

She has had an extraordinary offer, which I do not feel justified in again requesting her to sacrifice.

She has shown the utmost devotion and great ability.

I do pray for the success of your endeavors, for by such success you will have performed one of the greatest services to our generation.

I am pleased to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's courteous message upon the auspicious occasion of the settlement of the Tacna Arica question and to assure Your Excellency that it is sincerely appreciated by myself and by the…

I wish to express my appreciation of the organized support you are giving to the enforcement of law and the interest you are taking in improvement of the judiciary.

Before the merits or demerits of the subject can be gone into I must first determine the legal questions involved as to whether or not the plan and method have not already been conclusively determined by the Flood Control Act and the…

The effect of other suggestions is that the Government should purchase flowage rights over lands along stretches of the river where there is to be no additional waterflow out of the main channel.

Schedule A, Subdivision I, paragraph 6, of the Civil Service Rules, is hereby amended by striking out $480 and inserting $540 in lieu thereof.