[Released June 13, 1931. Dated June 12, 1931]
I AM SADDENED to learn of the death of your husband Dr. Franklin Henry Giddings and extend my deep sympathy to you. Dr. Giddings' career as an educator and author was an unusually fruitful one, and his thinking has made a permanent and significant contribution to the science of sociology.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mrs. Franklin Henry Giddings, Scarsdale, New York]
Note: Dr. Giddings, a pioneer sociologist and professor emeritus of sociology and history at Columbia University, died in Scarsdale, N.Y., on June 11, 1931.
Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Franklin Henry Giddings. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211085