Date: December 21, 1923 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) Here is an inquiry about the Shipping Board. The difficulty there, as I understand it, is that the law provides for a selection of members of the Board from different localities – the Atlantic Seaboard, the Gulf States, the Great Lakes region the Interior, […]
Date: July 6, 1926 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) Here is a question about the Shipping Board putting on more ships to transport wheat from the gulf ports. There is a large crop of wheat this year in that area that naturally sends its crop abroad through the gulf ports – Oklahoma and […]
Date: June 12, 1925 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I haven’t any information beyond what has already been published I think relative to the Tidal Basin Bathing Beach. I think I put into the Budget last year a recommendation for money to be used to keep that open as a bathing beach and […]
Date: September 13, 1927 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) PRESIDENT: Glad to see you all back. It has not been possible to confer with very many people since I came back to Washington on the matter of the need of a special session. So far as I have been able to get any […]
Date: June 8, 1926 Location: Washington, DC (Original document available here) I have under consideration for appointment to the Shipping Board a man named Jefferson Myers. He was the State Treasurer of the State of Oregon. His term expired with the last election. He was a candidate for re-election and I think ran some 40,000 […]