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Herbert Hoover   /hˈərbərt hˈuvər/   Listen
Herbert Hoover

noun
1.
31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964).  Synonyms: Herbert Clark Hoover, Hoover, President Hoover.






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"Herbert hoover" Quotes from Famous Books



... the position in the public eye, can have had such influence in the councils of our own government and in the fate of other governments, can have been so conspicuously effective in public service as has Herbert Hoover, without exciting a wide public interest in his personality, his fundamental attitude toward his great problems and his methods of solving them. This American, who has had to live in the whole world and yet has remained more truly and representatively ...
— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg

... propose to describe the magnificent work of the "Commission for Relief in Belgium." It is too well known. Besides, it is not my story; it is the story of Herbert Hoover, who made the idea a reality, and of the crew of fine and fearless young Americans who worked with him. England and France furnished more money to buy food; but the United States, in addition to money ...
— Fighting For Peace • Henry Van Dyke

... regular meetings of the Executive committee, with Herbert Hoover's Trade Investigation committee (consisting of Lansing Hoyt, C. J. Mayer, Gordon Enders, E. Kehich, Paul Steindorff and headed by F. R. Eldridge), mingling with the party to assist in establishing friendly commercial relationship; with all those identified with certain ...
— The Log of the Empire State • Geneve L.A. Shaffer

... themselves a grand time. Some of them—the predicting-by-past-performances men—were pointing out that only four Presidents had failed to succeed themselves when they ran for a second term: Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and Herbert Hoover. They argued that this presaged little chance of success for Senator James Cannon. The pollsters said that their samplings had shown a strong leaning toward the President at first, but that eight weeks of campaigning had started ...
— Hail to the Chief • Gordon Randall Garrett

... with emphasis on the pronoun. "Have you got a misery in your back, or is Herbert Hoover the wrong man for ...
— The Go-Getter • Peter B. Kyne



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