Apr 24, 1929
These areas are pressing strongly that they should be represented, especially in view of the character of problems that are now likely to arise.
Herbert Hoover
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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.
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Apr 24, 1929
It is the wish and the demand of the American people that our new buildings shall comport with the dignity of the Capital of America.
Apr 24, 1929
Washington is not only the Nation's Capital, it is the symbol of America.
Apr 24, 1929
It is on this national stage that the great drama of our political life has been played.
Apr 22, 1929
Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendatory regulations.
Apr 22, 1929
I WISH to express my sympathetic interest in The Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy, and to commend this great humanitarian effort now being made in the Philippines by your organization.
Apr 21, 1929
It is unnecessary for me to argue the fact that the very essence of freedom is obedience to law; that liberty itself has but one foundation, and that is in the law.
Apr 21, 1929
No individual has the right to determine what law shall be obeyed and what law shall not be enforced.
Apr 21, 1929
That is the enforcement and obedience to the laws of the United States, both Federal and State.
Apr 21, 1929
Respect for law and obedience to law does not distinguish between Federal and State laws--it is a common conscience.
Apr 21, 1929
The plan would require a substantial increase in taxes as no such expenditure or depletion of revenues as this plan implies could be paid from marginal income of the government more particularly in view of the very large increased…
Apr 21, 1929
On the contrary I am convinced that it would bring disaster to the American farmer.
Apr 21, 1929
If the increased price did reflect to the farmer, the plan would stimulate overproduction and thereby increase world supply which would in turn depreciate world prices and consequently decrease the price which the farmer would receive, and…
Apr 21, 1929
The first result of the plan, if put into operation, would be a gigantic gift from the government and the public to the dealers and manufacturers and speculators in these commodities.
Apr 21, 1929
I regret deeply that I cannot agree that this provision would bring the results expected.
Apr 21, 1929
It is not proposed to pay the debentures of subsidies to the farmers, but to the export merchants, and it seems certain that a large part of it would not be reflected back to the farmer.
Apr 21, 1929
A further serious question arises again (if the plan did have the effect intended) where the foreign producer of animals would be enabled to purchase feed for less than the American farmer producing the same animals.
Apr 21, 1929
Altogether, from the above reasons, it is my belief that the theoretical benefits would not be reflected to the American farmer; that it would create profiteering; that it contains elements which would bring American agriculture to…
Apr 18, 1929
I regret to see that some of our farm organizations are again divided on measures of relief.
Apr 18, 1929
A definite plan of farm relief was adopted by the Republican Convention at Kansas City.
Apr 18, 1929
No great step in public action can ever succeed without some compromise of view and some sacrifice of opinion.
Apr 18, 1929
The port limits of Boston, Massachusetts, the headquarters port of Customs Collection District No. 4 (Massachusetts) are hereby extended to include Braintree, Weymouth and Hingham, and the waters adjacent thereto, effective thirty days…
Apr 18, 1929
I can deplore that divisions in the ranks of the farmers themselves only encourage those who oppose all farm relief, and can at best only bring delay and danger of entire failure.
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