Your enterprise and courage is an admirable instance of restoring confidence.

He was one of the most generous and most constructive philanthropists of history.

He gave strength to every movement for the public welfare of his generation.

By his own efforts he became one of the great industrial leaders of the world.

I AM GRATIFIED to learn of so fine an instance of cooperation on the part of the community and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as the opening of the banks of your city and the restoration of their fundamental service to the whole…

I have learned with profound regret of the death of George Eastman.

The nature of your organization of itself demonstrates that American business survives all ebbs and flows of economic tides, and moves forward by virtue of the indomitable courage and energy and individual initiative of Americans.

I have no doubt that benefits will show at once in business, in employment, in agriculture, and in the prosperity of the people of the town generally.

Likewise the earned tribute you will pay to Mr. Harvey D. Gibson illustrates the power of local community effort, when inspired by a sense of personal and civic responsibility, to meet all demands for humane helpfulness in times of stress.

He revolutionized the art of photography, bringing the Kodak within the means of millions of people.

Such a course would imply no increase in the contemplated expenditures.