Herbert Hoover

Under the authority of sections 177 and 179 of the Revised Statutes, the Assistant Secretary of War appointed under the act of Congress approved July 2, 1926, is hereby authorized and directed, pending further orders, to perform the duties…

My other piece of news is the appointment of Mr. Frederick Huff Payne of Massachusetts as Assistant Secretary of War.

This order is issued with the restriction that it shall not confer upon Mrs. Roy any status for subsequent employment in the classified service.

It was their insistence which made the schools and the churches.

This order is issued upon the recommendation of the Federal Trade Commission, and with the restriction that it does not confer upon Miss Coons any status for subsequent employment in the classified service.

Mrs. Thelma D. Roy may be employed for one year in the classified service of the Treasury Department without regard to the requirements of the civil service rules.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress supplemental estimates of appropriations for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year 1931, for public building projects authorized by the Act of May 25, 1926…

Not only they bore great burdens of daily toil and the rearing of families, but they were intent that their children should have a chance, that the doors of opportunity should be open to them.

Miss Coons has rendered satisfactory and efficient service as a clerk under temporary appointment and has qualified in the civil service examination for junior typist.

Miss Mary Edwina Coons may be employed for one year in the classified service under the Federal Trade Commission, without regard to the civil service rules.

It was those women who carried the refinement, the moral character, and spiritual force into the West.

It is a pleasure both to address a great audience gathered to do honor to the pioneer women and to support my friend, the Secretary of War, who, to your and my misfortune, cannot yet leave his room from recent illness, from which happily…

Concerted effort will be made to place contracts for the building contemplated for this year as rapidly as possible.

Submission at this time of these additional projects for specific authorization and appropriation will afford employment for many thousands of men engaged in the building trades and allied industries.

These expenditures have been rendered necessary to finally overcome the long delays in provision of quarters for Federal activities during recovery from the war, and are imperative for the more economical carrying on of the Federal…

There are few men of the West of my generation who did not know the pioneer woman in his own mother, and who does not rejoice to know that her part in building that great civilization is to have such beautiful recognition.

We have determined to send up the Naval Arms Treaty immediately upon its receipt here in Washington.

Her rating, however, has not been reached for certification for permanent appointment from the District of Columbia.

But it is my duty to introduce a product of the pioneer woman of Oklahoma who has risen high in the councils of the Nation--and high in the esteem of the whole country--the Secretary of War, Patrick J. Hurley.

The publication of accurate, unbiased, worthwhile news is a public service; for our people rely for information of affairs upon the newspapers.

There are a great many historical events which it is not only highly proper but desirable to commemorate in a suitable way, but the longer use of our coins for this purpose is unsuitable and unwise.

They introduce an element of confusion and lack of uniformity.

The matter is not perhaps one of large importance in itself, were it not for the fact of the great number of other similar proposals by the aggregate of which the principles of sound coinage are being jeopardized.

Mr. Gannett has shown a high sense of public responsibility in the management of his newspapers.

These coins do not serve for circulating medium which is the real function of coins.