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Herbert Hoover

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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.

Quotes by year · 1929–19323,180 total · peak 1931 (1235)
1929: 764 quotes1930: 740 quotes1931: 1,235 quotes1932: 441 quotes
Jan 26, 1931

So much of the orders of May 19, 1910, creating Temporary Power-Site Withdrawal No. 145, and July 2, 1910, creating Power-Site Reserve No. 145, as affects the lands hereinafter described, is hereby revoked

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Jan 26, 1931

Some years ago we appointed a joint control board on Niagara Falls with the Canadian Government.

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Jan 26, 1931

So much of the orders of November 16, 1909, creating Temporary Power-Site Withdrawal No. 64, and July 2, 1910, creating Power-Site Reserve No. 64, as affects the lands hereinafter described, is hereby revoked

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Jan 26, 1931

So much of the orders of June 26, 1909, creating Temporary Power-Site Withdrawal No. 24, and July 2, 1910, creating Power-Site Reserve No. 24, as affects the lands hereinafter described, is hereby revoked

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Jan 25, 1931

I recommend that, as an act of grace and without reference to the question of the legal liability of the United States in the premises, an appropriation in the total amount of $4,657.20 United States currency be authorized to effect…

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Jan 25, 1931

It will be noted that the Egyptian Government in a note addressed to the American minister at Cairo, dated March 20, 1930, agreed to the arbitration of the claim.

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Jan 25, 1931

This claim grows out of the improper exercise of jurisdiction over Mr. Salem by the native courts of Egypt respecting a charge of forgery of deeds and out of the retention by the Egyptian authorities of Mr. Salem's deeds for a period of…

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Jan 25, 1931

I inclose herewith a report which the Secretary of State has addressed to me in regard to the claim of George J. Salem against the Government of Egypt.

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Jan 25, 1931

I recommend that an appropriation in the amount suggested by the Secretary of State be authorized in order that the expenses which it will be necessary to incur on the part of the Government of the United States in the prosecution of the…

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Jan 25, 1931

These actions caused him to lose opportunity for the advantageous sales of his land and entailed the expenses necessary in defending himself in the native courts of Egypt and also in the mixed tribunals of Egypt.

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Jan 22, 1931

As the twenty-first year marks Youth's formal passage to legal maturity, so the coming of the twenty-first year of the Boy Scout movement in America marks its entry into an era of maturer service.

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Jan 22, 1931

I have today forwarded to the Senate the nomination of Mr. Benedict Crowell, of Cleveland, as a brigadier general of the Reserve Corps of the Army.

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Jan 22, 1931

His energetic and valuable service to his community, his State and his Country will be greatly missed.

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Jan 22, 1931

I HAVE been shocked and grieved to learn of the death of your father.

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Jan 22, 1931

I HAVE today forwarded to the Senate the nomination of Mr. Benedict Crowell of Cleveland as Brigadier General in the Reserve Corps of the Army.

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Jan 22, 1931

This promotion in itself is not so material as the opportunity it affords to indicate the feeling of his many associates and friends in the War Department and my own feeling over what we have always considered was an inadvertent but yet a…

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Jan 22, 1931

The Attorney General will release that opinion for you this afternoon if you want it.

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Jan 22, 1931

I hope it may continue through years of increasing usefulness to release that deep love of humanity, that eagerness to make life fuller and sturdier, that is the very core of democracy itself.

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Jan 21, 1931

The existence of such a society, representing so many industrial and professional organizations still flourishing after one hundred years of unbroken activity is in itself a demonstration of the inherent stability of American life with its…

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