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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.
I am today appointing a committee to advise the Government departments on methods for revision of the statistical services for the determination of unemployment and to establish some basis for cooperation between Government departments and…
To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions for advisory fact-finding, coordinating, or negotiating purposes, I may suggest that they are not a new necessity in government.
In order to secure the information we need at reasonable cost we must find a new basis for recruiting it.
It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4725 of September 27, 1927, withdrawing the public lands in T. 50 N., R. 80 W., sixth principal meridian, Wyoming, pending a resurvey, be, and the same is hereby, revoked.
Nor would I approve that plan because it is not in the interest of Tennessee or the rest of the nation.
Your course has been the only one that will secure an advancement of this development in the interest of the people of Tennessee.
The fact is that the House plan will secure development of this great resource more effectively and more greatly in the interests of Tennessee than would the Senate plan.
So much of the order of November 19, 1912, creating Power-Site Reserve No. 316, as affects the lands hereinafter described, is hereby revoked
And provided that the land so restored to the Territory of Hawaii shall be at all times subject to the following reservation, to wit: that said tract of land shall be available for the taking off and landing of airplanes or airships…
The people of the United States join me in extending to Your Majesty and to the people of Italy sincerest sympathy in the great losses suffered in the earthquake which has wrought such widespread destruction in the vicinity of Naples.
It is hereby ordered that the tract of land situated near Puolo Point, Hanapepe, Island of Kauai, Territory of Hawaii, set aside for military purposes by Executive Order No. 4760, dated November 15, 1927, be, and the same is hereby…
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