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Press Conference, May 17, 1927

October 8, 2020

Date: May 17, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I have here a telegram from Mr. Hoover. It is quite long and I don’t need to read it all. Some of the pertinent parts of it are. Accumulating experience and the success of our appeal to the public makes reasonably safe to say […]

Press Conference, October 9, 1925

September 22, 2020

Date: October 9, 1925 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I haven’t any information about the proposed consolidations, I think that is what is referred to here, in the baking companies or the bread industry, other than what I happened to see in the press, so I am not qualified to express any opinion […]

Press Conference, November 20, 1923

August 18, 2020

Date: November 20, 1923 Location: Washington, D.C. (Original document available here) I notice some of the representatives of the press take advantage of an opportunity to sit down. Any of you that wants can have my chair. Mr. President does that go for anybody but newspaper men? No. I have here an inquiry about the […]

The High Place of Labor

August 4, 2020

Title: The High Place of Labor Date: September 1, 1924 Location: Washington D.C. Context: September 1, 1924 was Labor Day. This is an address to a group of labor leaders. Labor Day is more entitled than any other to be called a national holiday. Other holidays had their origin in state legislative action. Labor Day […]

Press Conference, April 29, 1924

July 31, 2020

Date: April 29, 1924 Location: Washington D.C. (Original document available here) This first inquiry is about Section 28 for the enforcement of preferential rail rates of shipping law, and the inquiry is as to whether this is to be given further consideration by administrative agencies, or whether the matter of the effective date now rests […]