Herbert Hoover

Both of these committees to function in much the same way as the Interstate Commerce Commission now acts in passing upon loans to railroads.

The enactment of the legislation which has been recommended creating the system of home loan discount banks.

It is estimated that altogether over 10 million individual depositors and borrowers have been benefited by the margins provided by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to these banks.

The review of the work of the Corporation showed that in the 14 weeks of its life loans of about $500 million were authorized to something like 4,000 banks, agricultural credit corporations, life insurance companies, and other financial…

They also discussed methods further to coordinate all economic agencies engaged in assistance to business, employment, and agriculture.

And bank failures which amounted to nearly 100 a week when the Corporation began are now down to about the casualties of normal times.

That a patrol be maintained in the territorial waters of the United States and the high seas, including Bering Sea, extending westerly from the territorial waters of the United States and Canada

That the masters of such vessels, and the agents, assistant agents, inspectors, and wardens of the Bureau of Fisheries are hereby designated as officials to exercise all powers of search and seizure

Mrs. Gladys L. Knight may be appointed to an existing vacancy in the rating of junior typist, Grade CAF-1, at $1,260 per annum, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., without regard to the civil-service act or rules.

I and my fellow countrymen in dedicating this day to our own dead will be keenly mindful of your own country's great sacrifice and will bend our heads in silent prayer for Belgium's heroic dead.

The tribute which you and the Belgian people are paying on Decoration Day to the memory of those American soldiers and sailors who gave their lives for the cause of justice and whose bodies rest in Belgium, echoes and resounds in every…

I have received Your Majesty's gracious message.

Mrs. Nesta Stephens Long may be appointed a clerk in the Customs Service in the district of Arizona for a period of one year without regard to her standing on the civil-service junior stenographic register.

Her passing will bring a sense of personal loss to thousands from whom her quiet devotion to every cause looking to the well-being of children and to the enrichment of the life of women had evoked their warm affection and their deep…

The Nation has lost a great citizen, and all who knew her a loyal friend.

I wish especially to pay tribute to her great services in the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, and in the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership.

I AM SHOCKED to learn of the sudden death of Miss Van Rensselaer.

An equal courage and boldness in declaring the sound principles of life and government which they helped bequeath to us.

His example and the example of your spiritual forebears challenge you who are leaders of this generation to a commensurate share in solving the hardly less difficult problems of our own day.

We cannot thus squander ourselves into prosperity.

What you want and what I want is to restore normal employment.

It will serve no good purpose and will fool no one to try to cover appearances by resorting to a so-called 'extraordinary Budget.'

No institution doing the work this Seminary is doing should be allowed to fail, particularly in times like these.

The back of the depression cannot be broken by any single Government undertaking.

I am much gratified at the action taken in New York by which a joint committee has been appointed representing financial and industrial leaders of that city for the purpose, amongst other things, of securing that the expansion of credit…