"Mrs. Jean N. Edington may be appointed to an appropriate position in the classified service without regard to the requirements of the civil service rules."
"We have sent recommendations to Congress to make an emergency appropriation to deal with this particular pest because it is probably the most dangerous thing that has attacked American horticulture."
"That is all that I have--that I am able to give you."
"It is regarded by all of the experts as probably the greatest menace that could come into American horticulture, and the proposal of the Government is to spend the money to stamp it out instantly with..."
"Pursuant to authority contained in Sections 5 and 6 of the Act of Congress, approved June 10, 1922, the rates prescribed in said Act are hereby announced as effective for the fiscal year ending June 3..."
"For our tasks and their tasks there is need of a daily inspiration of surroundings that suggest not only the traditions of the past but the greatness of the future."
"It is our primary duty to do more than erect offices."
"It is on this national stage that the great drama of our political life has been played."
"Washington is not only the Nation's Capital, it is the symbol of America."
"It is the wish and the demand of the American people that our new buildings shall comport with the dignity of the Capital of America."
"No one in 150 years has been able to improve upon it."