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Message to the Salvation Army in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

April 07, 1931

[Released April 7, 1931. Dated April 6, 1931]

My dear Brigadier Harvey:

The people of Philadelphia have done a splendid work in providing local relief of local distress in these difficult times. The Committee for Unemployment Relief under the Chairmanship of Mr. Horatio G. Lloyd has accomplished a great humanitarian task. The independent cooperation of the Salvation Army in this work has been invaluable. I am deeply interested in your efforts to finance the continuance of these labors through the private generosity of the people of Philadelphia, and I shall hope that you may meet with the most generous response.

Yours faithfully,

HERBERT HOOVER

[Brigadier James A. Harvey, The Salvation Army, 701 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]

Note: The message was made public in conjunction with the opening of a fund-raising campaign by the Salvation Army in Philadelphia.

Herbert Hoover, Message to the Salvation Army in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211985

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