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Simple honesty was part of his creed.

This refuge shall be known as the Sacramento Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.

I do hereby exempt Joseph W. Austin from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until March 1, 1938.

I do hereby exempt Clarence W. Perley from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until September 1, 1937.

I do hereby exempt William M. Beaman from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until March 1, 1938.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

Executive Order No. 5603 of April 20, 1931, withdrawing, together with other lands, public lands in the following-described township in Wyoming, pending a resurvey, is hereby revoked as to said township.

Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 1 of the act of June 4, 1897, do proclaim that the following-described lands in Arizona are…

Warning is hereby expressly given to all unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, destroy, or remove any feature of this monument.

Crop insurance and a system of storage reserves would help to protect the income of individual farmers against the hazards of crop failure.

I am convinced that the plan it outlines is practical, socially desirable, and worthy of your thoughtful consideration.

I believe that it provides an adequate basis for legislation which will make possible a program of crop insurance applying to wheat for the crop year 1938.

May I repeat what I have suggested in a former message: That because economic and social reforms of this character are essentially national in scope and in administration, the citizens of our nation believe that our form of government was…

The expense in the past to Federal, State, and local governments arising by reason of crop losses points to the desirability of employing the principle of insurance in order to lessen the cost of future crop disasters.

Loans may be made by the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration for the purpose of financing, in whole or in part, the purchase of farm lands and necessary equipment by farmers, farm tenants, croppers, farm laborers, or stockmen.

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, it is ordered as follows:

It is ordered that the amounts specified in the second paragraph of the Act as available for the several classes of public projects therein enumerated, be, and they are hereby, increased proportionately in the aggregate amount of…

Men and women in every part of our country are fundamentally decent and fundamentally honest.

This dinner to Jim Farley is on the part of all of us a very personal affair.

I am not going to say 'Fellow Democrats,' I am going to say 'Fellow Americans.'

Jim Farley is not just a Democrat with a big 'D'—he is a democrat in the sense that he has faith in his fellowman.

I have never once heard him utter one mean syllable about any human being.

I do hereby exempt William H. Long from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until August 1, 1937.

There was nothing mysterious about it.

It depends on which paper you read.