Herbert Hoover

While the dramatic period of Lincoln's life was engrossed with these tremendous problems, yet he was a man of many interests.

Carried to its logical extreme, all this shouldering of individual and community responsibility upon the Government can lead but to the superstate where every man becomes the servant of the State and real liberty is lost.

No stronger statement has ever been made than that of Lincoln upon obedience to law as the very foundation of our Republic.

Where people divest themselves of local government responsibilities they at once lay the foundation for the destruction of their liberties.

Under Federal control the varied conditions of life in our country are forced into standard molds, with all their limitations upon life, either of the individual or the community.

Lincoln was a builder in an epoch of destruction.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. 325-326), that the trust period on allotments made to members of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians of Kansas, which trust period expires during the…

The declaration made by the delegates of the United States is designed as a safeguard against any possible misconstruction of the position of the United States that its participation in a multilateral convention with the regime now…

I transmit herewith a certified copy of those instruments, signed on July 5, 1930, by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and of 29 other governments participating in the international load-line conference…

I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the inclosed report from the Secretary of State, to the end that legislation may be enacted authorizing an appropriation of $30,000 for participation by the United States Government…

I feel it is just that I should take this occasion to make known two men who have had a large part in development of these ideas and their ultimate consummation--Mr. Edward Eyre Hunt of the Department of Commerce, and Mr. Otto Mallory, of…

The act gives wider authority and specific organization for the methods which have been pursued by the administration during the past 14 months in respect to the planning and acceleration of Federal construction work for purposes of relief…

It is not a cure for depression, but it is a better organization of relief for future depressions.

I have just signed the Wagner bill for advance planning of construction and Federal works with a good deal of pleasure.

I shall place the organization set up under the act, under the Secretary of Commerce.

It is not a cure for business depression but will afford better organization for relief in future depressions.

And that is all that I have today.

I have today had great pleasure in approving the act providing for advance planning of construction and Federal public works in preparation for future unemployment relief.

My dear Mr. Senator: As to our conversation this morning, I am glad to confirm at once that the proposed additional drought relief measure was suggested for the purpose of real aid to the weakened credit situation in the drought area and…

Mrs. Nixon S. Plummer may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Federal Trade Commission without regard to the civil service rules.

It is hereby ordered that lot 5 of sec. 24, T. 11 S., R. 19 E., and lot 6 of sec. 33, T. 8 S., R. 20 E., containing 160 acres, and tract 20 in sec. 24, T. 9 S., R. 25 E., containing 68.93 acres, Salt Lake meridian, Utah, be eliminated from…

It does not, therefore, appear that he was engaged in the service upon which this legislation is based.

This enactment would bring Homer N. Horine within the provisions of the pension laws conferring benefits upon honorably discharged members of the military forces who served 90 days or more during the War with Spain.

I am advised by the Secretary of War that no record has been found of the enrollment, muster-in, or service in Company G, Fourth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, during the war with Spain, of any man named Homer N. Horine.

In the making of a nomination to fill the existing vacancy, I shall be glad to receive any suggestions which you may care to submit and suggest that you present to me eight or ten names of men whom you think would make fit appointees for…