We have hitherto regarded great business depressions with their inevitable train of unemployment and hardships as an inevitable fever which must run it course, and in former times if public works were undertaken in alleviation of…

The Department of Commerce informs me that the totals expended or contracted for in new public works and betterments by National, State and local governments, in these last 6 months have not been less than $1,700 million and that this…

To definitely organize so as to prevent the activity in public works from receding like other activities in depression, and to speed them up in anticipation of future needs so as to alleviate unemployment in such a time is a new experiment…

This time the Nation has realized that as a sound economic policy, the prudent expedition of construction could be to an important degree used as a balance wheel to maintain security of employment, to maintain consumption of goods, to thus…

PLEASE EXTEND my cordial greetings to the Kiwanis International Convention and my hope that the Kiwanis movement everywhere may continue to advance those high ideals of public helpfulness and service which means so much to the progress of…

In all previous depressions, the volume of public works has diminished because the State and municipal governments, feeling the effects of such depression in taxes, in problems of finance, and in the general psychology of retrenchment…

I was greatly shocked this morning to learn of the death of your husband who has been my friend over twenty-five years.

Mrs. Hoover and I wish to convey to you our deepest sympathy and our trust that you may be given strength in this, the greatest trial which can come to you.

I am shocked and grieved at the death of my friend, your father, Representative Stephen G. Porter, and I offer you my deepest sympathy in your bereavement.

The public school system is America's distinctive and magnificent ally of the home in this most precious trust.

I congratulate you most cordially upon your remarkably interesting and human news reports of the Byrd Antarctic expedition.

He will be long and gratefully remembered for his important services to the Nation, and I gladly bear witness to them of personal knowledge.