"Further, under the authority recited herein, I do hereby transfer from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Commerce, to be administered under the supervision of the Secretary of Commer..."
"I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, under the authority conferred upon me by the act of February 14, 1903, entitled 'An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor..."
"The transfers above-mentioned shall be effective from and including July 1, 1925."
"I want always to help every legitimate concern in the United States."
"Doing less would betray them and dishonor us."
"They glossed over no wrongs, they hid away no skeletons."
"United, it could go its way in all security; divided, both sections becoming the prey of jealousy and intrigue, would have dissipated all the power they now have for good in the world."
"This increasing unification has well-nigh obliterated state lines so far as concerns many relations of life."
"In ordinary times nearly the entire burden of taxation represents state and local demands."
"This is not local self-government."
"Our gathering here to-day is in testimony of supreme obligation to those who have given most to make and preserve the nation."
"This is the day on which the American people each year acknowledge that they have such a debt."