Herbert Hoover

The stations listed herein may use other frequencies for the purpose of selecting a frequency more suitable for a particular service prior to requesting authority to change the frequency, provided a notice is first submitted to the…

No department shall erect a new station in the proximity of an existing government station, unless the same is incapable of rendering to such department the service that it requires, which shall be determined only after careful…

This order shall become effective July 1, 1931.

The regulations established in this Executive order shall be effective and binding not only as Consular Regulations, but they shall be equally effective and binding for the following purposes:

All fees and other official moneys received by diplomatic missions or consular offices or by district accounting and disbursing offices established under section 35 of the act of February 23, 1931, may be transmitted through the Department…

Such suit, however, shall in no case prejudice, but shall be held in entire subordination to, the interest, claims, and demands of the United States as against any officer, under such bond, for every willful act of malfeasance or corrupt…

Whenever it is determined that the efficiency rating of an officer is unsatisfactory, thereby meaning below the standards required for the service, and such determination has been confirmed by the Secretary of State after notice and…

Leave of absence is granted, within statutory limitations, at the discretion of the President, acting through the Secretary of State.

In the event of public emergency any retired Foreign Service officer may be recalled temporarily to active service by the President, and while so serving he is entitled in lieu of his retirement allowance to the full pay of the class in…

An accurate record of the efficiency of all officers and employees of the Department of State is kept for this purpose.

It was determined, in view of a report by the Navy that Guam no longer has any military value, that all activities there would be reduced to the minimum basis required for the civil government of the island.

Exhaustive studies are in progress in all different operations of the Navy with a view to increasing savings wherever possible without injury to needed employment and efficiency in training.

Every division of the Navy was gone over with great care at the conference this afternoon to ascertain the economies that could be made in the Navy without sacrificing efficiency.

The problem in silver is the fact that whereas production has not materially increased, the demonetization of silver in certain localities and the exigencies of certain other governments have led to the sale of considerable amounts of…

And it certainly would do no harm if there was an informal conference, much as there was over wheat or many other conferences that are constantly going on over the world.

The Government employees include, of course, the military services.

The construction employees, since January 1930, however--that is a year and 5 months ago-have increased from 235,000 to 655,000 at the present moment.

It is my own impression that that might be of some advantage--that they might be able to develop a program which at least would be worth consideration by the governments.

I doubt whether he could alight at the camp.

There is reserved to the United States the right to obtain, out of the source of water supply at Spring Reserve Lot, all the water needed for military purposes on the portion of the Keaahala Military Reservation being retained by the…

Except in so far as the same will have application to use by the Federal Government of the tracts of land indicated in paragraphs 1 and 2 hereof, the reservations and restrictions incorporated in Executive order of June 26, 1924, supra…

I am now able to inform you that informal discussions among nations some of whose participation is vitally necessary develop the fact that they do not consider this a proper time to call an international conference on silver and would…

MAY I TAKE this occasion of the sixty-sixth anniversary of Your Majesty's birth to reiterate the cordial good wishes of the American people and to add my sincere personal congratulations.

The deficit is from about $900 million to $950 million, of which about $440 million will be due to the statutory redemption of the debt.

I have sent a letter to the Secretary of War congratulating the Department for the success in the conduct of the maneuvers.