If your officers had yielded on this occasion the Red Cross would have been rendered impotent in the face of every future national emergency.
Herbert Hoover
The Public Record
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1929, to March 4, 1933. A member of the Republican Party, Hoover was born in Iowa but later moved to California. Before his presidency, he served as the Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928, where he focused on promoting economic growth and efficiency. Hoover was also known for his humanitarian efforts during World War I, leading relief efforts in Europe and earning a reputation as a skilled administrator.
Every progress in constructive recreation for leisure time not only improves health but also morals.
You are inscribing another bright chapter in the history of the American Red Cross.
The very spirit that makes the Red Cross possible assures it a probity and devotion in service which no government can ever attain.
You have, under most difficult handicaps, again demonstrated that it can meet and relieve human suffering in any national disaster.
The whole recreational movement is one not only vital to public health but it is vital to public welfare.
A voluntary deed by a man impressed with the sense of responsibility and brotherhood of man is infinitely more precious to our national ideals and national spirit than a thousandfold poured from the Treasury of the Government under the…
I wish to express to you the most profound admiration that I hold for the work of the Association and to extend to you my best wishes for its further development.
It has taken a most significant and a magnificent part in the whole recreational development of the country.
Their loyalty to American institutions and ideals is an earnest of continued service of country.
As a mark of respect to the memory of the Honorable Nicholas Longworth, late Speaker and Member of the House of Representatives of the United States, it is hereby ordered that the flags on the White House and public buildings in the…
All such land not otherwise reserved or withdrawn is hereby restored to the public domain and shall become subject to disposition under the laws applicable thereto upon such date and after such notice as may be hereafter determined and…
I will be obliged if you will express my cordial greetings to those present at the dinner of the American Institute on Thursday evening.
So much of Executive order of February 8, 1923, creating Public Water Reserve No. 86, as affects the land hereinafter listed is hereby revoked.
I WILL BE obliged if you will express my cordial greetings to those present at the dinner in honor of Dr. James H. Kimball tomorrow evening.
His happy character, his sterling honesty, his courage in public questions, endeared him and held the respect not alone of his myriad of friends but of the country at large.
To Dr. Kimball himself my warm appreciation of his signal services in promoting the success of aviation in general and transatlantic flights in particular through his scientific skill and judgment so characteristic of the entire weather…
In his service he contributed greatly to the welfare of the American people.
IT GIVES me much pleasure on this anniversary of Your Majesty's birth to send to you hearty congratulations and best wishes for a long and prosperous reign.
MR. LONGWORTH served his fellow countrymen in State and Nation for over 33 years--nearly the whole of his adult life.
It is distinctly worthwhile to remind the public not only that many great industrial enterprises are based upon the technical and mechanical requirements of the Army and Navy but also that many inventions and new processes of the greatest…
The independent cooperation of the Salvation Army in this work has been invaluable.
I am deeply interested in your efforts to finance the continuance of these labors through the private generosity of the people of Philadelphia, and I shall hope that you may meet with the most generous response.
The people of Philadelphia have done a splendid work in providing local relief of local distress in these difficult times.





