"The other provisions of the bill have my entire approval, and if the unconstitutional feature should be removed and the militarization feature removed I should be pleased to approve it."
"I am constrained, therefore, to withhold my approval of this bill."
"I am not unmindful of the primary purpose of this bill to coordinate the public-health activities of the Government, and the importance of enlarging the facilities of the Public Health Service to enab..."
"This act, in my opinion, is so framed as to undertake to take away and limit the constitutional authority of the President to make appointments."
"The War Department has been the principal Federal agency to render assistance."
"If the War Department be precluded from using these reserve supplies and equipment in case of actual and imperative call, its effectiveness as an agency to relieve distress is diminished."
"With general prosperity, with high wages, with reasonable hours of labor, has come both the means and the time to cultivate artistic spirit."
"Through our contact with the beautiful we see more of the truth and are brought into closer harmony with the infinite."
"If we could surround ourselves with forms of beauty, the evil things of life would tend to disappear and our moral standards would be raised."
"It is but natural, therefore, that we should turn to the field of art."
"I am a good deal disturbed at the number of proposals that are being made for an expenditure of money."