Herbert Hoover

We cannot allow the Navy to fall behind in its morale and recreational facilities.

This refuge shall be known as the Bird Island Wild Life Refuge.

Mrs. Helen Hall York may be appointed a clerk in the classified service of the Treasury Department without compliance with the requirements of the civil service rules.

I have been very much urged by the National Park Service to visit the Rocky Mountain parks: Glacier, Yellowstone, Estes, and the other parks.

They are certainly beautiful enough to accommodate presidents, and if it can be arranged I propose to make a trip beginning at the northern ones and working down the Rocky Mountain section through the different parks, during the month of…

I would hope that this can be done after the arrival in the region by automobile rather than by train and in short stages.

In view of the provisions of Executive Order No. 5290, of March 5, 1930, establishing a system of monthly accounts and returns for all consular officers, the words 'quarter' or 'quarterly,' wherever they occur in the Consular Regulations…

It certainly is not--broad foreign policies of the Nation and not partisan policies.

The ratification of the London treaty is a partisan matter or not.

When our delegation went to London they went as Americans and not as members of a political party, and there is no partisanship whatever in this treaty.

I have your letter of inquiry as to whether I can see any reason to change the views which I expressed on April 20th last upon the so-called debenture plan introduced by the Senate into the Tariff Bill. I do not.

The Tariff Commission has estimated the cost of the plan to the Treasury, if put into operation and on the basis of present exports, at about $280,000,000 per annum.

The plan in the present bill presents an additional objection in that the export subsidies proposed vary with different agricultural products and thus are widely different to different farmers.

It may delay the construction work for a month or two, but it is believed by the Navy that it makes a more perfect ship.

THE PRESIDENT has approved the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy for the following changes in commands in the fleet to be made at the appropriate time during the next few months.

Secretary Adams has worked out the changes in commands of the fleet in certain of the bureaus in the Navy.

The setting up of committees of this kind does not imply questions of administration or supervision over industrial life, but that we might develop our experiences to get them into form that have more power rather than administration in…

The purpose of it was to enable the Postmaster General to contract in such a fashion as to encourage passenger traffic and to bridge over from solely a postal aviation to passenger-carrying airplanes.

I have also a letter here from Mr. Sloan, who is the chairman of the Electrical Utilities Committee that we set up last December on construction work.

We are not yet entirely through the difficulties of our situation.

By cooperation between Government officials and the entire community, business, railways, public utilities, agriculture, labor, the press, our financial institutions and public authorities, we have undertaken to stabilize economic forces…

The success of this effort is of paramount importance, not only for our immediate needs but the possibilities it opens for the future.

The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reasons for its submission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget transmitted herewith.

All slumps are the inexorable consequences of the destructive forces of booms.

I believe I can say with assurance that our joint undertaking has succeeded to a remarkable degree, and that it furnishes a basis of great tribute to our people for unity of action in time of national emergency.