It is most kind of you to come to the station to greet Mrs. Hoover and me this morning.

Labor has cooperated in prevention of conflict in giving greater effort and consequently in reducing unit costs.

Without organized political parties, striving to serve the best interests of the American people, we would descend into political anarchy and be torn into political factions representing selfish, sectional, and group minorities.

The business depression is the dominant subject before the country and the world today.

I do wish to express to you the gratitude of Mrs. Hoover and myself for the kindliness and cordiality of your welcome.

Depressions are not new experiences, though none has hitherto been so widespread.

It is upon him also that we lean for leadership in every civic movement-political, economic, and social.

Under the guidance of Divine Providence they will return to us a greater and more wholesome prosperity than we have ever known.

I AM SADDENED to learn of the death of your husband Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings and extend my deep sympathy to you.

Dr. Giddings' career as an educator and author was an unusually fruitful one, and his thinking has made a permanent and significant contribution to the science of sociology.

Mrs. Helen Terrill Mays may be appointed to a clerical position in the classified service of the Treasury Department without compliance with the requirements of the civil-service rules.