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Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933.A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe.
Orphaned at an early age, Hoover just as Lincoln had done, had advanced in life on his own initiative. More: Historic front page from the Des Moines Register, Nov. 7, 1928: Hoover elected president
In the midst of a worldwide depression, Hoover and Secretary of State Henry Stimson became more closely involved in world affairs than Hoover's Republican predecessors had been. [105] According to William Leuchtenburg, Hoover was "the last American president to take office with no conspicuous need to pay attention to the rest of the world."
In the past, Herbert Hoover was routinely blamed for the Great Depression, despite taking office less than a year before the stock market crash of 1929 struck, signaling the beginning of an era of ...
May 8 – Hoover meets with Goodyear president Paul W. Litchfield to discuss the development of dirigible mail carriers. [23] May 11 – Hoover designates the Mount of the Holy Cross as a national monument. [24] May 12 – Hoover invites Senators William Borah and Simeon D. Fess to the White House to negotiate a compromise on the farm bill. [25]
“People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness ...
Coolidge ordered that Hoover should be treated with presidential honors on his trip, despite Hoover having not yet entered the office. [9] While crossing the Andes from Chile, a plot by Argentine anarchists to bomb Hoover's train as it crossed the vast Argentinian central plain was foiled. The group of plotters were led by Severino Di Giovanni ...
In the foreword to the first 1970 English edition of On Death and Dying, Colin Murray Parkes wrote, 'This book describes how some American individuals have coped with death.' [14] In her book, Kübler-Ross states that the medical advancements of the time were the mark of change for the way people perceive and experience death. [10]