Herbert Hoover

All the Federal officials who were known to have been engaged in those practices have either resigned or been removed.

This matter has been for some weeks under investigation by the Department of Justice and the Post Office Department and the facts will be determined and published.

Those matters have already been under investigation for some time by the Department.

Under instructions to the various departments of the Government, a system has been established by which these reprehensible practices have been absolutely stopped and the system of purchase and sale of appointments, so far as it existed…

The charges were made by the old organization which was displaced.

I have asked the Department of Justice to consider the report of the Senate committee on Federal patronage in the South.

By and large the practice complained of is over in the United States.

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the Department of State for the fiscal year 1930, amounting to $25,000, for the expenses of participation by the United…

The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its submission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations thereon…

Yes, with all sides.

We have had a telegram from the Commission stating that they think they have reached a settlement of a program.

I think they are getting ahead in London--making progress.

I am sorry I haven't anything that I can tell you about without making trouble for somebody else, and on this occasion I will keep still.

So I am afraid I can't add anything to the current supply.

I wish you success in this undertaking.

The work of the National Urban League to train Negroes in the city to find new lines of occupation is fundamental to the progress of the race.

It is the soil in which self respect takes root, and from which may then grow all the moral and spiritual enrichments of life.

The first step toward being a good citizen is to achieve economic independence.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. 325-326), that the trust period on the allotments of the Rosebud Indians in South Dakota, which would otherwise expire during the calendar year 1930, be…

Be, and is hereby extended for a period of ten years

I recommend that an appropriation be authorized to effect a settlement of this claim in accordance with the recommendation of the Secretary of State.

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 on the Devils Lake Reservation, North Dakota, which trust expires during the calendar year…

I AM shocked and grieved to learn of the terrible flood disaster in southern France which has caused such grievous loss of life.

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 members of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Indians in Kansas, which trust expires…

The conviction that every person in the Republic owes a service to the Republic; that the Republic rests solely upon the willingness of everyone born into it to bear his part of the duties and obligations of citizenship is as important as…