Hoover, Herbert

1. 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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Hoover, Herbert, his plan for sending food into Russia, 423; 374, 411.

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At the White House last week Hoover Herbert and Stimson Henry Lewis decided, and the U. S. press was so advised, that they did not wish to recognize Friend Tang Shao-yi and his friends in Canton as the new Government of South China.

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Hulda Randall Minthorn Hoover, Herbert's mother, was a woman of unusual mental gifts.

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Homestake Mine, South Dakota, gold ores, 229 Hones, 269 Hoover, Herbert C., 322 Hot springs, relation to ore-deposits, 40, 258-259 Hot waters, evidence of formation of ores by, 37-41 Huancavelica district, Peru, mercury ores, 258 Hudson River, physiographic problems in tunneling under, 415 Hudson's Bay, possible diamond field, 317 Humus, 94 Hunan Province, China, antimony ores, 249 Hungary, antimony, 247 natural gas, 151     See also Austria-Hungary.

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