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The establishment of a uniform principle of making interterritorial freight rates will aid the commercial development of such regions as the Tennessee Valley.

Prudent management demands not merely works which will guard against these calamities, but carefully formulated plans to prevent their occurrence.

We have undertaken a national policy.

It is ordered that Robert F. Kelley, who resigned his position in the Foreign Service of the United States on July 1, 1928, to accept appointment to a position in the Department of State, be, and he is hereby, reinstated in the Foreign…

Apart from the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Columbia Valley Authority, and the Mississippi River Commission, the work of these regional bodies... would consist chiefly in developing integrated plans to conserve and safeguard the prudent…

The water-power resources of the nation must be protected from private monopoly and used for the benefit of the people.

It is important that we set up without delay some regional machinery to acquaint us with our problem.

We must act while there is yet time if we would preserve for ourselves and our posterity the natural sources of a virile national life.

National planning should start at the bottom.

Please let me urge upon the Congress the desirability of placing all but policy-forming positions under the merit system.

I would, therefore, urge upon the Congress that all but policy-forming positions be placed within its provisions.

Government business, of course, should be performed with the highest economy and efficiency.

Aside from the undoubted fact that the merit system affords the best method for administration of government business, the particular feature of the system which has the greatest appeal is the open competition it provides to the taxpayers…

Executive Order No. 5144 of June 25, 1929, withdrawing the public lands in certain therein-described townships in New Mexico, pending resurvey, is hereby revoked.

It is ordered that the following-described lands within the Umatilla Federal Irrigation Project, Oregon, be, and they are hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved for the use of the Department…

The tract of land described in section 1 of this order is hereby temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale or entry, and reserved for use by the United States Indian Service Hospital at Unalaska.

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891.

Furthermore, enactment of this proposed legislation would constitute a breach of faith on the part of the Federal Government toward the large body of converted policy holders.

It is not believed that any further delay in the adoption of an insurance program is warranted.

The War Risk Insurance Act ... manifesting the intent that term insurance was to be temporary in character and of limited duration.

I return herewith, without my approval, H.R. 5478.

At no time has the loss ratio on term policies been down to the level of the American Experience Table of Mortality.

I do hereby direct all Government officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on the first day of June 1937.

I invite all people of the United States to observe that day and anniversary year in schools, churches, and other suitable places with appropriate ceremonies commemorating the tercentenary of the birth of Pere Jacques Marquette.

Each State should now be preparing to accept such responsibility and to carry on the State park development for the benefit of its citizens.