Herbert Hoover

The Haitian Commission was here for preliminary report.

As you probably already know, I have sent the name of Circuit Judge John J. Parker of North Carolina to the Senate for the Associate Judgeship in Justice Sanford's place.

The Commission received the most hearty and cordial cooperation and support from General Russell and his staff of able assistants.

We have arranged, also, today to withdraw further marines from Nicaragua.

In the last 20 years. The circuit longest without a justice is the fourth--70 years without a justice.

I can even tell you that. [Peter V.] Daniel, retired in 1860.

Although fitness is, of course, the primary requisite for selection to the Supreme Court, it is interesting to note that that particular circuit has not been represented in the Court for 70 years.

The following described tract of public land, property of the United States, in the Philippine Islands, is hereby reserved and set apart for military purposes, subject to private rights if any there be

I warmly commend the effort to maintain these institutions, which have played and should still play so large a part in the development of leaders of American life.

They develop character and provide a rounded cultural equipment to students who do not wish professional specialization.

It is a satisfaction that this memorial has taken not only the form of a beautiful building, but that within its walls there will be carried on the services it commemorates, services for our suffering fellow men.

To the patriotic mothers who gave their sons, to the many other loyal women who lost those dear to them for their country's sake, to the noble women, so many of them nurses, who died in war service, to all those who served with devotion…

May they ever see in this memorial a token of the honor and affection in which their country holds them.

There is a great need for such institutions, for in them is preserved to a high degree that personal relationship of teacher and student so difficult to maintain in the Universities.

No better memorial can be built to the American women of the World War--and no truer inspiration given to the women of today.

The small college is irreplaceable in many of the services it renders and the inspiration it gives.

On the part of the United States Government I accept with pleasure the share in this beautiful memorial, given by those who have helped to make it possible.

The inscription in the hall below calls this 'A Living Memorial.'

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 allotments made to Indians on the Nez Perce Reservation in Idaho, which trust period expires during…

They are vigorously denied by the members of the new advisory committee.

The committee makes charges against two present Federal officials but not over patronage questions.

Lately, charges have been brought that one member of the new advisory committee in South Carolina has accepted contributions from a person recommended for appointment.

As a matter of fact the report refers to incidents, men, and conditions which have already been cleaned up by the action I took on the 26th of March last.

All Federal officials known to have engaged in such practices have either resigned or been removed.

Under instructions at that time by the various departments of the Government, a system was established by which these reprehensible practices were absolutely stopped and the system of purchase and sale of appointments was cleaned up and it…