Herbert Hoover

I must, of course, accept it.

I know of no American retiring from public service with such a sense of affection and devotion of the whole people.

No appreciation I could express would even feebly represent the gratitude of the American people for your whole life of wonderful public service.

Consular officers should countenance and protect American citizens before the authorities of the country in all cases in which, they may be injured or oppressed; but at the same time they should impress upon such citizens their obligation…

American officials stationed or temporarily residing in foreign countries, and officials of insular possessions of the United States.

I SHALL BE OBLIGED if you will present my cordial greetings to the annual convention of the American Road Builders Association.

All letters addressed in the care of a consular office should be held at the disposal of the addressees for the period prescribed by the laws of the country in which the consular office is situated.

Consular officers are particularly cautioned not to enter into any contentions that can be avoided, either with their countrymen or with the authorities or nationals of the country.

Upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, Executive Order No. 5327 of April 15, 1930, temporarily withdrawing certain lands in Utah and other States on account of their possible oil-shale value, is hereby modified to the extent…

During the period of economic dislocation through which we are passing insurance has been a major factor in maintaining stability and will contribute to recovery.

Consular agents are not authorized to address the Department of State directly.

Your Association has performed a very useful function in coordinating engineering, manufacturing, equipment and industrial aspects of the program.

I must, of course, accept your wish in the matter.

Insurance not only protects the home and family and their social and spiritual values, but helps to meet current and future needs of expanding industry, commerce and education.

I am interested to learn of the plans for Life Insurance Day to focus attention on the part which insurance plays in the economic life of the nation, as well as in the assurance of individual and family stability.

You have performed a real public service and I wish to express my personal appreciation.

The mighty reservoir of capital and security which insurance represents is an asset to the individual, to the family and to the country.

I trust that your convention may be fruitful in sound plans and policies of such an important factor, both of relief and recovery.

Road building by the Federal Government and the States and municipalities is a major factor in unemployment relief.

Officials of the Department of Justice and the Treasury Department charged with the prevention of smuggling, on urgent matters involving attempts to smuggle merchandise and prohibited articles into the United States.

I am informed that more than half, or fifty-four per cent of the people of the United States, own life insurance.

The sixty-eight million policy holders of the country with policies aggregating one hundred nine billion dollars, represent a major stratum in the very bed-rock of our economic life.

I shall welcome any further reduction which can be made and still preserve the proper and just functioning of the Federal Government.

But our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order--national, State, and local.

Our people must realize that Government cannot continue to live in a depression upon the scale that was possible in times of great prosperity.