Herbert Hoover

For you are concerned in the special interest of boys, and I am a willing ally in that interest.

There cannot be Boy Scouts without organization and leaders.

The priceless treasure of boyhood is his endless enthusiasm, his store of high idealism and his fragrant hope.

It is what to do with him in his leisure time that will, of course, contribute to his health and his education and his morals, but in the main what will direct his interests to constructive joy instead of destructive glee and will yield…

In any event, he is a complex of cells teeming with affection, filled with the curiosity as to every mortal thing, radiating sunlight to all the world, endowed with dynamic energy, and an impelling desire to take exercise on all occasions.

The problem that we are considering here is not primarily a system of health or education or morals.

This order shall take effect from and after this date.

History will properly appraise your efforts for posterity--the commendation of your own consciences for today.

I can only repeat what I have so often said to you before that the work which you have done, apart from its evident humanitarian aspects, is a large contribution to the cause of good-will between peoples.

In public and in private life he set a shining example, and his death will be mourned throughout the land.

Executive Orders Nos. 2905 and 3394, dated July 8, 1918, and January 28, 1921, respectively, withdrawing certain lands in Wyoming in aid of legislation to extend the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park, are hereby revoked as to the…

His private life was characterized by a simplicity of virtue that won for him a place in the affection of his fellow countrymen rarely equaled by any man.

It becomes my sad duty to announce officially the death of William Howard Taft, which occurred at his home in the City of Washington, on the eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty, at five-fifteen o'clock in the afternoon.

All the evidences indicate that the worst effects of the crash upon employment will have been passed during the next 60 days with the amelioration of seasonal unemployment, the gaining strength of other forces, and the continued…

But a decrease in demands of policyholders for loans on the insurance companies and the action recently taken by the Federal Reserve System should result in increased supplies of credit, especially for residential building, which in turn…

If the board finds it necessary to have further funds it should be possible to make provision for them in ample time, as Congress will no doubt be in session by the time they are required.

The total construction work for 1930 seems assured to be larger than even 1929.

The low point of business and employment was the latter part of December and early January.

Available money for mortgage purposes of home building and agriculture has lagged behind other forms of credit.

The amount of unemployment is, in proportion to the number of workers, considerably less than one-half (probably only one-third) of that which resulted from the crashes of 1907–08, and 1920–22 at this period of the situation.

The Departments of Commerce and Labor are engaged in the usual monthly survey of business and unemployment and especially of the results obtained from the measures which have been in progress since the last of November, to reduce…

Measures taken to ameliorate interest rates have resulted in continuous decrease since December, and money is available at lower rates for business and commercial purposes.

Unemployment amounting to distress is in the main concentrated in 12 States.

One result is an increasing volume of bond issues have been placed for public improvements.

Nationwide response to the request for increased construction and improvement work by public authorities, railroads, utilities, and industries is having a most material effect.