Herbert Hoover

Since that time employment has been slowly increasing and the situation is much better today than at that time.

The undertakings to maintain wages have been held.

This Executive order shall become effective on July 1, 1930.

New Bern, North Carolina, and Manteo, North Carolina, are hereby abolished as customs ports of entry in Customs Collection District No. 15 (North Carolina)

I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the inclosed report from the Acting Secretary of State, to the end that legislation may be enacted to authorize an appropriation of the sum of $13,000 for the expenses of…

Executive Order No. 5208, dated October 12, 1929, withdrawing the public lands in T. 19 S., R. 56 E., Mt. Diablo meridian, Nevada, pending a resurvey in the township, is hereby revoked as to sections 25, 26, 35, and 36, said township.

I recommend that the Congress enact the necessary legislation authorizing it.

I want to take this occasion to thank you for your many courtesies during the last year.

We do not always agree on things, but people that have a sense of sportsmanship in the world always agree to disagree and let it go at that.

I haven't anything this morning.

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation amounting to $7,000,000 for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1930, to remain available until June 30, 1931…

It is a great pity to have you walk all around the town and come here and then I have nothing.

We are issuing a report that we have received from the committee that was formed to expedite construction work in public utilities, but you will get that outside, and I don't need to read it to you.

I wish to take this opportunity to endorse so fine an effort and to urge all music loving Americans to lend their support in making it a permanent national institution.

I am glad to learn of your interest in the American Opera Company.

Due honor should be paid his memory as a man of wonderful character as well as a poet of universal appeal.

His songs have been a part of the fabric of American life for generations.

It is a vital movement to establish a national organization for young American singers, composers and writers.

It should be understood that the unprecedented drive now in progress for new legislation and for expansion of established services which increase expenditure beyond the budget, only in a small percent originates with Members of Congress or…

I hope that the people at home will realize that the Government cannot undertake every worthy social, economic, military, and naval expansion, increases in pay to Government employees, expanded pension systems, or public improvement…

We have enough resources to take care of the budget and such necessities as marginal cases of disability among veterans and the speeding up of public works that we have undertaken to assist employment and some proposals of lesser…

The thought behind the plan of having the school building constructed entirely by the mountaineers was that the men would gain an experience which would enable them to make their own homes more comfortable by changes and additions which…

Financed by President Hoover and a few of his friends and built by the men of the mountains under the direction of a trained constructor.

We have a right to look to our universities for the training of leadership and I sincerely hope that the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, reared as it is upon the historic background of a University which has played…

Even though many may not actually enter public life, it would be strange if they did not benefit from a thorough understanding of the problems of government and of our relation to other peoples.