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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.
It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of March 2, 1917 (39 Stats. 969—976), that the period of trust on lands patented to the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians in California, which trust expires during the calendar…
This will be the first vacation of the President since assuming office, with the exception of a 7-day fishing trip to Florida something more than a year ago.
On the return voyage the President will stop off at the Virgin Islands, the jurisdiction of which has been recently transferred by the President's order from the Navy to the Department of the Interior.
THE PRESIDENT HAS appointed the following as delegates on the part of the United States to the Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs to be held at Geneva, May 27, 1931.
The journey will give the President an opportunity to confer with Governor [Theodore] Roosevelt at Porto Rico.
TO SECURE a short rest and to settle certain administrative problems regarding American possessions in [the] Caribbean, President Hoover will go to Porto Rico and probably to the Virgin Islands next week on the reconditioned battleship…
IN COOPERATION with Secretary Doak, I have appointed Mr. John R. Alpine of New York as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor in charge of the United States Employment Service activities to include the application at once of the…
But such action would have little effect, however, unless the east Texas pool shall be prorated on the same basis as other new pools.
The Board considers that in the present situation a substantial reduction in imports can be brought about without distributing the price of oil to the consumer, the Atlantic Seaboard can be supplied from domestic storage.
On the 29th of January the Oil Conservation Board recommended to Congress that authority be given to the Federal Trade Commission to effect proration of imports, it being the Board's hope that a proration of production in the foreign pools…
On March 5, therefore, the Board, with my approval, requested that importers should each voluntarily prorate their production from foreign pools and their imports into the United States, in order to give mid-continent and California fields…
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