Another catastrophic decision President Hoover made was to raise taxes sharply when we were in the pit of the Depression, which promptly sent an already shattered economy spiraling to even deeper levels.
Established in 1929 by President Hoover to protect a breeding ground for migratory birds, the sanctuary still ranks as one of the largest nesting areas in north Florida, for birds such as ibises, pelicans, egrets and double-crested cormorants.
But it should be remembered that in 1933, President-elect Franklin Roosevelt refused to agree a bi-partisan deal with President Hoover to stave off the collapse of the entire US banking system, which shut down completely on the eve of his inauguration.
President Herbert Hoover believed in a balanced budget, and our Federal Reserve Board sat on its hands while investors bought stock on 10% margin.
In particular, Paulson's powwow in December was reminiscent of one of President Herbert Hoover's moves in the fall of 1929, following the stock market crash.
The outgoing president, Hoover, asked his successor designate, Franklin Roosevelt, to cooperate with him on joint statements and policies, but FDR refused to do so.
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Apart from Bess Truman, Vogue has photographed the wife of every American president since 1929 when President Herbert Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, was featured.
President Herbert Hoover deepened the economic slump with huge tax increases.
President Herbert Hoover, a Republican and former Commerce secretary, believed the government should monitor the economy and encourage counter-cyclical spending to ease downturns, but not directly intervene.
In 1931, Rogers' radio broadcast at a low point in the Great Depression included a folksy chat with President Herbert Hoover to kick off a nationwide unemployment relief campaign.
Today's right-wing populists, such as Senator Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Representatives James Sensenbrenner Jr. (Colo.) and Tom Tancredo (Wis.), are spiritual heirs of a Republican President, Herbert Hoover, and a Republican senator and congressman, Reed Smoot and Willis C.
On the issue of his approach to streamlining government -- and specifically, to asking Congress for the authority that every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan had to make proposals to streamline government -- he very much wants to see action on that.
Sometimes employers get overwhelmed with the communication process, says Amy Hoover, president of Talent Zoo, a site for marketing, advertising, and digital professionals.
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Finn Jr. is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and president of the Washington, D.
Finn Jr. is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and president of the Washington-based Thomas B.
In fact, they harken back in many respects to Hoover, who was president until 1933.
In 1874, Herbert Clark Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, was born in West Branch, Iowa.
Ohga even compared Hashimoto to Herbert Hoover, the American president who helped bring his country and the world into the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Although nowadays associated with the generally hawkish Hoover Institution that he created at Stanford University, Hoover was the last elected president from the strain of the GOP now dubbed extreme.
He pointed to the example of Herbert Hoover, the Depression-era president who signed protectionist legislation into law.
Mr. Boskin, a professor of economics at Stanford University and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.
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Charles L. Hooper is president of Objective Insights, a company that consults for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution.
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