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I am very keenly interested in all of these public works projects which have improved the schools of the Nation.

I am proud—America is proud—of what they have given to us.

It is fitting, therefore, that this should be a service of rededication to the liberty and the peace which this Statue symbolizes.

We take satisfaction in the thought that those who have left their native land to join us may still retain here their affection for some things left behind.

This project for Brooklyn College is killing two birds with one stone.

I suggested there that we should rededicate that Statue not to liberty alone but also to peace.

I am glad to come here today and to wish to Brooklyn College the fine and successful future that it deserves.

It is the memory of all these eager seeking millions that makes this one of America's places of great romance.

We will not forget that liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

Even in times as troubled and uncertain as these, I still hold to the faith that a better civilization than any we have known is in store for America and by our example, perhaps, for the world.

I do hereby exempt Adolph Kress from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until July 1, 1937.

It shall be the duty of this Committee to continue to sponsor appropriate cooperative working agreements among the various agencies of the Government in the health and welfare field.

I hereby designate the following as members of the Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare Activities.

The Committee will continue to function through the special technical committees it has set up from time to time.

I do hereby exempt Adrian J. Pieters from the provisions thereof and continue him in the service until December 1, 1937.

But, more than that, it is a great loss to the multitudes of Americans whose needs and problems were always in the forefront of his thought and action.

The responsibility of scientists has been analyzed in noteworthy addresses.

The chief benefit is going to be not to Vermont, but to Massachusetts and Connecticut.

The death of Senator Couzens to me is a great loss.

I am glad that prosperity is back with us again and, believe me, it is going to stay.

Your Government in Washington has to keep in close touch with the Governments of the States and of the cities of the Nation.

Engineering must cooperate in designing accommodating mechanisms.

I regard the State of Connecticut as a very integral part of the Nation.

I have said that what the present national Administration has tried to do was to adjust statecraft to reality.

I am glad that Governor Greene spoke of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations as the cradle of religious liberty.