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2 days ago · Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States, often evokes images of the Great Depression and challenging economic times. Yet, there's much more to his story than economic turmoil. Herbert Hoover was a man of complexity and contrast, whose life was filled with remarkable achievements and profound contributions to society, both before and after his presidency.
2 days ago · Herbert Hoover played a major role in organizing food aid and the feeding of nine million people in German-occupied Belgium and northern France during the war. This meant locating sources for credit to finance the purchase of food and organizing transport across the Atlantic to Britain and from there through the Netherlands to Belgium.
1 day ago · June 27, 2024. As reported by ENR at the time, while the Depression deepened in the early 1930s, none of the initiatives taken by President Herbert Hoover or Congress did much to help, and some ...
1 day ago · In the 1932 presidential election, Roosevelt defeated president Herbert Hoover in a landslide.
3 days ago · It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. The dam was controversially named in honor of President Herbert Hoover.
2 days ago · West Branch, Iowa is the birthplace of Herbert Hoover, our 31st president. While working in Iowa, Dr. Will Anderson, Professor, on CMU’s School of Communication, Journalism and Media wrote a radio drama called “The Son of West Branch: America's Great Humanitarian.”
4 days ago · Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and its Aftermath by Herbert Hoover
