December 17, 1929
My dear Mr. Moffatt:
Please express to the members of the Tanners' Council gathered in Washington my cordial greetings and my deep appreciation of their patriotic cooperation in the nationwide task of assuring stability to the economic structure of the country in this hour of stress.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mr. Fraser M. Moffatt, Tanners' Council, Washington, D.C.]
Note: Executives of the leather tanning industry were meeting to discuss actions to follow up suggestions made during the Chamber of Commerce Conference on December 5 (see Item 297).
Herbert Hoover, Message to the Tanners' Council. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/209317