Few writers of our day have done more to disseminate truth regarding national affairs, always for the advancement of our country.

The government draws upon the personnel of its Foreign Service throughout the world for much in the way of information, negotiation, and tactful relationships.

I send cordial greetings at the advent of the New Year to our diplomatic and consular officers abroad with all good wishes for the satisfactions which your service merits.

His passing is a personal loss to me.

A sound and stable United States is a contribution to the well-being of the world.

Port Everglades, Fla., is hereby designated a customs port of entry in Customs Collection District No. 18 (Florida) with headquarters at Tampa, Fla., effective January 1, 1932.

Mrs. Yetta B. Floyd may be appointed to the position of clerk-typist in the Bureau of Prohibition, Department of Justice, without regard to the civil-service rules.

Mrs. Hallie D. Stotler may be appointed to the position of clerk in the Bureau of Prohibition, Department of Justice, without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service rules.

The proposal was that the Shipping Board should return to its function as an advisory and regulatory body and remove all of its administrative functions to the Department of Commerce.

The Veterans' Administration was a new type of organization in the Government.

Setting up an agency similar to the Veterans' Bureau.

The most constructive direction for economy in Federal expenditure beyond a rigid reduction of appropriations and the resolute opposition to new appropriations lies in the consolidation of Government bureaus and general reorganization of…