Herbert Hoover

I do say that I consider some such program essential in the public interest, and that the carrying out of such a program does not admit of delay.

I am glad to announce that the Governor of Missouri has informed me that the State of Missouri is completing its organization to care for its unemployed.

The following States in addition to Missouri have indicated their ability to undertake their own problem: Rhode Island, Indiana, Michigan, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, California, West Virginia, and Delaware.

The erection of this great structure at this time has been a contribution to the maintenance of employment and is an exhibition of courage and confidence to the whole Nation.

It carries on a great tradition in national hospitality.

They have come to be conducted in far larger vision than mere profit earning.

I wish to congratulate the management on the consummation of its plan for the magnificent new home perpetuating the Waldorf-Astoria.

The opening of the new Waldorf-Astoria is an event in the development of hotels even in New York City.

Our hotels have become community institutions.

I think we need a reunderstanding of what background consists of--it is the desire on my part to help the correspondents with the facts about various things on which I do not desire to be quoted.

I welcome it and will go to the American people on the question of whether the departments have the right to dictate to the American people what they shall expend.

This refuge shall be known as the Locomotive Springs Migratory Bird Refuge.

There is absolutely no truth to it.

That is not at all a nice question to ask, but there is nothing of the kind and has been no thought of such a thing.

Such things do not happen in sound government.

I propose to attend the baseball game in Philadelphia next Monday and will welcome all the press support on that occasion that you feel you can give.

We have heard nothing of it.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in section 5 of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388-389), that the trust period on allotments made to members of the Otoe and Missouria tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, whose trust period…

I am glad you asked the question because it is only fair to Secretary Adams that such rumors should be cleared up.

The problem of reducing Government expenditures is a difficult one and affects great numbers of people.

It is hereby ordered that lots 1, 2, 3, 4, SE. ¼ NW. ¼ and NE. ¼ SW. ¼ sec. 18, T. 14 N., R. 2 W., Gila and Salt River meridian, containing 238.08 acres, be temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, except as…

We certainly get enough advice and little enough action in these days.

The American Legion has set an example to other voluntary bodies in the country in its determination to make no demands on the next Congress.

I trust that the deliberations of the representatives of the New Jersey Chapters may be fruitful in effective plans to meet the current demands upon the organization.

It is important that there should be a great effort on the part of such organizations to discourage every form of increased Federal expenditure and to themselves withhold projects, even though meritorious, until sometime when the country…