Herbert Hoover

The Department of Agriculture has undertaken a detailed survey of the situation.

I have decided to appoint General MacArthur as Chief of Staff of the Army on the retirement of General [Charles P.] Summerall.

And it is hereby ordered, pursuant to Public Resolution No. 85, 71st Congress, approved June 12, 1930, and subject to valid rights, that the above-described lands, if otherwise subject to disposition, shall be opened, under the terms and…

No stone will be left unturned by the Federal Government in giving assistance to local authorities.

While there are very eminent gentlemen who outrank him, none of them I believe have 18 months to serve before retirement or at least are short of the full term.

Much depends upon the further spread of the drought.

HERBERT HOOVER The White House, August 4, 1930.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in section 5 of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388-389), that the trust period on the allotments made to Indians of the Klamath River Reservation in California, which trust period…

That any woman who marries a citizen of the United States after the passage of the Act, or any woman whose husband is naturalized after the passage of the Act, shall not become a citizen of the United States by reason of such marriage or…

A woman citizen of the United States shall not cease to be a citizen of the United States by reason of her marriage after the passage of the Act unless she makes a formal renunciation of her citizenship before a court having jurisdiction…

The right of any woman to become a naturalized citizen of the United States shall not be denied or abridged because of her sex or because she is a married woman.

ON BEHALF of the Government and people of the United States in my own name, I offer Your Majesty hearty congratulations on this auspicious anniversary.

No fee should be collected for passports issued to officials or employees of the United States proceeding abroad in the discharge of their official duties or to members of their immediate families.

The present depression has given emphasis to the fact that the credit system in home building is not as soundly organized as other branches of credit.

After wide consultation with interested leaders, I have decided to undertake the organization of an adequate investigation and study on a nationwide scale of the problems presented in home ownership and home building, with the view to the…

The Conference will deal with the whole broad question of home construction and home ownership.

The expansion and betterment of homes in its bearing upon comfort, increasing standards of living, and economic and social stability, is of outstanding importance.

One of the important questions is finance.

I do indeed appreciate this heartening message of approval and support.

Thank you very much for your more than kind letter of June 13th, with its interesting enclosures.

Now, Therefore, pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 91 of the act of Congress approved April 30, 1900 (31 Stat. 141), entitled 'An act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii,' as amended by section 7 of the act…

I have tendered Mr. Roosevelt an interim appointment as Vice Governor of the Philippines.

In order to secure the information we need at reasonable cost we must find a new basis for recruiting it.

The Government does not intend to embargo Russian goods because we do not happen to like the character of the Russian Government.

The need for more systematic information has been generally endorsed by business and labor organizations for some years.