FDR

You are carrying out the ideal of working out things for the benefit of the average man and average woman by meeting new problems with new methods.

I am very glad to stop here tonight.

I want to congratulate you and tell you how happy I am in hearing about the fine public spirit that Corinth and Alcorn County are showing to the United States of America.

It is ordered that all of the vacant, unreserved and unappropriated public land in the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming be, and it hereby is…

It is through teamwork of all governmental units that victory may be attained.

Colonel Frank P. Douglas of Oklahoma is hereby appointed a special commissioner and member of the Textile Labor Relations Board.

It is, after all, only the peopling of the wilderness which gives permanency to the form of an ordered society.

You will be known as veterans of a new kind of war.

But I am much prouder of the way you good people are carrying that idea into actual fact.

We are carrying on, we shall carry on the purposes of these men and women of Harrodsburg.

To this you must add many other firsts—the first corn raised in Kentucky, the first peach trees and apple trees planted, the first wheat fields, the first grist mill and, perhaps most important of all, the first spinning wheel.

Again, mere survival calls for a new pioneering on our part.

I am very proud to have had something to do with it.

Francis I. Biddle is hereby appointed as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board at a salary of $10,000 a year.

We must not allow this type of insurance to become a dole through the mingling of insurance and relief.

Old age is at once the most certain, and for many people the most tragic of all hazards.

There is tragedy in growing old without means of support.

Our first task is to get the economic system to function so that there will be a greater general security.

Unemployment insurance must be set up with the purpose of decreasing rather than increasing unemployment.

I am happy that there is so much interest in the problem of economic security.

Unemployment insurance will be in the program.

I hereby approve said amendment and modify my previous approval of the Code of Fair Competition for the Alcoholic Beverages Importing Industry to include an approval of said Code in its entirety as hereby amended.

It is important that the Federal Government encourage States which are ready to take this progressive step.

To obtain improved cooperation among Federal agencies engaged in lending Government funds, either directly or indirectly, the President has created a Loan Committee.

It is ordered that the following-described land be, and it is hereby, temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, entry, permit, or lease and reserved as a source of material for the construction and maintenance of public…