The District of Columbia is without an adequate prohibition enforcement law.
Herbert Hoover
The Public Record
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.
There should be a transfer of the functions of detection and prosecution of prohibition cases from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice, and thus an ending of divided responsibility and effort.
The conclusion reached by the Acting Secretary of State has my approval and I recommend that the Congress authorize an appropriation of $152.35 to be paid to the Polish Government.
The overcrowding of the prisons themselves is inhumane and accentuates criminal tendencies.
Thereby, we have inaugurated one of the greatest economic experiments in history on a basis of nationwide cooperation, not of charity.
I am strongly of the belief that during the period when the scientist must labor in his laboratory inventing relief the Government must have restraint against excessive sin.
I am merely saying that science and initiative of our people cure many national headaches.
We know that such ideas are anathema to the American mind, and no man could be elected a county commissioner on such a platform.
We know there is neither financial, territorial, nor military imperialism in the American heart.
Their health, their education and their high ideals will determine the quality of American civilization a generation hence.





