Hoover, Herbert

A political leader of the twentieth century, who was president from 1929 to 1933. Hoover became famous for his direction of relief work in Europe after World War I . He had been president only a few months when the Great Depression began ( see stock market Crash of 1929 , stock market , and Hoovervilles ). A Republican , he was reluctant to use the power of the federal government against the Depression. Hoover tried to persuade voters that private enterprise could turn the economy around, but he lost the election of 1932 to Franklin D. Roosevelt . In the late 1940s, he was head of a commission to make the federal government more efficient.

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No one remembers who was the speaker of the House under Herbert Hoover.

On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed it into law.

This week, President Obama birthed a still-born budget that Herbert Hoover could have loved.

Despite the Obama stimulus, the rate of increase in federal spending was even higher under Herbert Hoover.

To find an incumbent who has lost without a major primary challenge, you have to go back to Herbert Hoover in 1932.

Men of the stamp of Herbert Hoover have demonstrated the very great need for men of scientific training in public affairs.

Herbert Hoover writes me that the Germans are violating all their pledges in Belgium.

Among the engineers employed was an alert, smooth-faced, keen-minded young American named Herbert Hoover.

I have asked Mr. Herbert Hoover to undertake this all-important task of food administration.

In the same month Herbert Hoover heard his next call to war service.

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