The discussion today was directed to measures for reduction of expenditures below these estimates with view to meeting possible reduction of revenue arising from slack times.

Otherwise, real comparisons would be destroyed by the variations in Post Office operations.

Also some comparisons of Federal expenditures include the Post Office outlays.

I have prepared the necessary Executive order in compliance with the authority under the act.

It is folly to think that because we are the richest Nation in the world we can out build all other countries.

It will require many years to complete its construction.

In aggregate this inland waterway undertaking represents a larger project than even the Panama Canal.

Schedule A, Subdivision VIII, paragraph 5, of positions excepted from examination under the civil service rules is hereby amended to except guidance and placement officers under clause (a), and by adding a new clause (l) following (k), to…

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…

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…