April 17, 1931
[Released April 17, 1931. Dated April 15, 1931]
I HOPE the members of the press associations meeting in the next few days, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press, and the American Newspaper Publishers Association, may find renewed inspiration in their high service of country in these gatherings.
HERBERT HOOVER
Note: The message was printed in Editor and Publisher. The conventions of the press associations were being held in New York City during the week of April 21 - 24, 1931.
Herbert Hoover, Message to the Annual Conventions of the Press Associations. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/212204