In any event, he is a complex of cells teeming with affection, filled with the curiosity as to every mortal thing, radiating sunlight to all the world, endowed with dynamic energy, and an impelling desire to take exercise on all occasions.
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.
I can only repeat what I have so often said to you before that the work which you have done, apart from its evident humanitarian aspects, is a large contribution to the cause of good-will between peoples.
History will properly appraise your efforts for posterity--the commendation of your own consciences for today.
His private life was characterized by a simplicity of virtue that won for him a place in the affection of his fellow countrymen rarely equaled by any man.
In public and in private life he set a shining example, and his death will be mourned throughout the land.
Executive Orders Nos. 2905 and 3394, dated July 8, 1918, and January 28, 1921, respectively, withdrawing certain lands in Wyoming in aid of legislation to extend the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park, are hereby revoked as to the…
It becomes my sad duty to announce officially the death of William Howard Taft, which occurred at his home in the City of Washington, on the eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, at five-fifteen o'clock in the afternoon.
The amount of unemployment is, in proportion to the number of workers, considerably less than one-half (probably only one-third) of that which resulted from the crashes of 1907–08, and 1920–22 at this period of the situation.
Since that time employment has been slowly increasing and the situation is much better today than at that time.
One result is an increasing volume of bond issues have been placed for public improvements.





