May 25, 1937
I can, therefore, from personal observation testify to the earnestness of purpose of the many outstanding statesmen of the Americas gathered there.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1933, until his death on April 12, 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in New York and is best known for his leadership during two of the most significant crises in American history: the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, a series of programs and reforms aimed at economic recovery and social welfare, which fundamentally reshaped the role of the federal government in American life.
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May 25, 1937
We need more camping areas, more picnic grounds within easy reach of centers of concentrated population, more wayside rests.
May 25, 1937
I strongly recommend, therefore, that the Senate give favorable consideration to the instruments herewith submitted with a view to giving its advice and consent to their ratification.
May 25, 1937
It is my considered belief that the several instruments that the Delegations of the American Republics formulated justify in the fullest measure the high hopes for success which they bore with them.
May 25, 1937
Further delay in its completion, with continued loss of transportation savings and waste of power, cannot be reconciled with sound policies of economy and conservation of our natural resources.
May 25, 1937
There is need for more of these local areas, and for careful planning of recreational facilities in those already established.
May 24, 1937
With adequate safeguards against the military use of exported helium, it would appear to be the duty of this country as a good neighbor to share our unneeded surplus it may have with other countries.
May 24, 1937
Cutting off the supply in times of stress would ground all ships in a very short time.
May 24, 1937
It is believed that the Government should be authorized to make both domestic and export sales for operation of commercial lighter-than air craft.
May 24, 1937
The United States has a monopoly of helium and all important reserves are owned by the Government.
May 24, 1937
The Army and Navy can estimate the quantity of helium required for replenishment abroad after the initial filling of an airship in this country.
May 24, 1937
The existence of competing helium producers restricts production from the Government plant, resulting in high costs.
May 23, 1937
Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business itself.
May 23, 1937
Our Nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day's pay for a fair day's work.
May 23, 1937
By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 25, 1910, ch. 421, 36 Stat. 847, as amended by the act of August 24, 1912, ch. 369, 37 Stat. 497, the Executive Order of March 31, 1911, withdrawing lands for Power…
May 23, 1937
The Executive Order of June 8, 1909, withdrawing land for Temporary Power Site Withdrawal No. 17, is hereby revoked.
May 23, 1937
Failure to observe them must be regarded as socially and economically oppressive and unwarranted under almost any circumstance.
May 23, 1937
Legislation can, I hope, be passed at this session of the Congress further to help those who toil in factory and on farm.
May 23, 1937
The time has arrived for us to take further action to extend the frontiers of social progress.
May 23, 1937
A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.
May 23, 1937
We must ever bear in mind that our objective is to improve and not to impair the standard of living of those who are now undernourished, poorly clad and ill-housed.
May 19, 1937
J. V. Taylor may be appointed to a position as Senior Soil Conservationist in the Soil Conservation Service.
May 19, 1937
We are watching all developments in the monetary sphere with a view to making any timely contribution we can.
May 19, 1937
To commit ourselves definitively at this time to a formalized course of action might well be premature and might therefore even do more harm than good.
May 19, 1937
The monetary understanding reached last September first with England and France and then with a number of other countries was rightly interpreted as being a great step forward in the attainment of the external stability of the dollar as…
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