“ Hoover ”, a captive male harbor seal demonstrated a convincing case of vocal mimicry.

* Hoover the talking seal

Famous concrete structures include the Burj Khalifa ( world's tallest building ), the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal and the Roman Pantheon.

) Turning Points in Ending the Cold War, ( Hoover Institution Press: 2008 ), pp. 111-140, p. 111 ; < http :// www. hoover. org / publications / books / 8237 > 22-23 February, 2012.

The translation was made by Herbert Hoover, then an American mining engineer ( better known to history for his later term as a President of the United States ), and his wife Lou Henry Hoover.

Hoover's mother, Hulda Randall ( Minthorn ) Hoover ( 1849 – 84 ), was born in Norwich, Ontario, Canada, of English and Irish descent.

For two and a half years, Hoover attended Friends Pacific Academy ( now George Fox University ), and then worked as an office assistant in his uncle's real estate office, the Oregon Land Company, in Salem, Oregon.

As chairman of the CRB, Hoover worked with the leader of the Belgian Comite National de Secours et Alimentation ( CN ), Emile Francqui, to feed the entire nation for the duration of the war.

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building ( which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ), and Encina Hall ( the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford ).

1508, codified at ), which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.

** U. S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ), who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims " The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself " in his inauguration speech.

* April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover ( then the Secretary of Commerce ), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television.

Named after Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration ( 1929 – 1933 ), the policy followed Japan's unilateral seizure of Manchuria in northeastern China following action by Japanese soldiers at Mukden ( now Shenyang ), on September 18, 1931.

It has claimed to be light-weight and easier to maneuver ( compared to using wheels ), although it is not the first vacuum cleaner to do this — the Hoover Constellation predated it by at least 35 years.

Money was loaned out to the farmers in order to buy seed and food for the livestock ( this was especially important since there had been a drought in the Democratic South previously ), but Hoover refused to lend to the farmers themselves, thinking that it was unconstitutional and if they were lent money, they would become dependent on government money.

In 1966, in a study of revolutionary socialism, Milorad M. Drachkovitch of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace ( a conservative / libertarian think tank ), noted two tactical options which divided late 19th century and early 20th century anarchists from socialists: electoral politics, which the socialists embraced, but anarchists generally opposed ; and, the general strike as a mechanism to prevent war, which anarchists supported, but socialists refused to endorse.

Landmarks in the suburb include the A40, a large road that connects Central London with the M40 motorway, and the large Art Deco Hoover Building, as well as St Mary's Church ( C: 15th century ), the River Brent and Perivale Wood Local Nature Reserve run by the Selborne Society.

Herbert Hoover Middle School ( 832 ; from Franklin, Lincoln and Monroe ),

grocery store ( 100 ), Sure Cast ( 92 ), Hoover Companies ( 90 ), Southwestern Graphite Co. ( 45 ), Bilbrough Marble Co. ( 25 ), Lone Star Industries ( 25 ), and Dash Covers, Inc. ( 25 ).

Hoover learned of the trip and negotiated with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to revoke Chaplin's re-entry permit.

Though he did not attend high school, the young Hoover attended night school and learned bookkeeping, typing, and mathematics.

Hoover and his wife learned Mandarin Chinese while he worked in China and used it during his tenure at the White House when they wanted to foil eavesdroppers.

After an unsuccessful stint working on a sheep ranch, he found work with a hunter and trapper turned rancher named Jake Hoover, who owned a ranch in the Judith Basin, and from whom Russell learned much about the ways of the west.

Bob Hoover learned to fly at Nashville's Berry Field while working at a local grocery store to pay for the flight training.

While a judge, he also served as an active member of a blue-ribbon " National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement ," better known as the " Wickersham Commission ," appointed by President Herbert Hoover to assess the lessons learned from prohibition, among other things.

Hoover had learned from the SOLO brothers, Morris and Jack Childs, who were members of the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ), but in fact were double agents working against the Soviet Active Measures program of the KGB, that one of King's consultants, Stanley Levinson, was an important active member of the CPUSA.

The 1951 arrest of Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Morton Sobell and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who, according to Hoover, " stole the basic secrets of nuclear fission ", caused great concern.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

The next year, she received the Hoover Medal, an engineering prize awarded jointly by five engineering societies, for her " contributions to motion study and to recognition of the principle that management engineering and human relations are intertwined .... Additionally, her unselfish application of energy and creative efforts in modifying industrial and home environments for the handicapped has resulted in full employment of their capabilities and elevation of their self-esteem ".

According to the Hoover Institution's website: " By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.

For example, in Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, the character Dwayne Hoover becomes violent when he's convinced that everyone else in the world is a robot and he is the only human.

of Commerce Herbert Hoover wrote the Seattle speech and Harding claimed he would protect the territory from looters and profit seekers ; a rebuff to former Sec.

In his acceptance speech a week after the convention ended, Secretary Hoover said: " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of this land ... We shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this land.

In April 1971 he made a speech on the floor of the House in which he strongly attacked FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the whole of the FBI.

In a speech in Memphis on October 17, Bilbo asserted that during a visit to Mississippi in 1927, " Hoover insisted that his train be routed through Mount Bayou ... in order that he might visit Mrs. Mary Booze, a negress, socially ," and added, " Mary Booze is as Black as the ace of spades.

* James Bond Stockdale Speaks on the " Melting Experience: Grow or Die ", Hoover Institution, Stanford, 1981 speech to the graduating class of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

In his acceptance speech, Hoover compared the honor of the " Old Guard " status to his frequent role as veteran counselor to later presidents.

*" Reflections on Urban America " ( Dan Quayle's Murphy Brown speech ) available in the Commonwealth Club of California records at the Hoover Institution Archives.

Herbert Hoover asks Rogers to give a speech to the nation, and everyone is inspired.

On June 16, 1931 President Herbert Hoover gave a speech at the official dedication ceremony of the Warren G. Harding memorial.

In June 2009 Dambisa Moyo told former U. S. presidential Republican speech writer Peter Robinson during a Hoover Institute sponsored Uncommon Knowledge interview that " the harshest thing that has happened terms of responses to her 2009 book Dead Aid, Bono's and Bob Geldof's organization, called One, who I had tried to have a number of meetings with before the book came out, about what the theses of the book were, launched a very vitriolic attack against me.