Woodrow Wilson: “Sometimes, when I am most beset, I seriously think of renting a pair of whiskers or of doing something else that will…”

The authorization granted to the United States Fuel Administration and the United States Fuel Administrator by paragraph 5 of the executive order of July 3, 1918, was and is terminated as of January 1st, 1920, and the said powers were and…

We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.

In my opinion the legislation proposed is not in the public interest and is objectionable.

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.