" William Sullivan, chief of intelligence operations for the FBI in the 1950s, has also described Hoover's continued zeal in pursuing action against the CPUSA as " insincere ", as he was fully aware of the Party's moribund condition.

Irwin served on the executive committee of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium in 1914 – 1915 and was chief of the foreign department of George Creel's Committee on Public Information in 1918.

Meyer strongly supported government relief to combat the Great Depression, taking on an additional post as chief of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Hoover's unsuccessful attempt to aid companies by providing loans to businesses.

The consensus among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election was caused primarily by failure to end the downward economic spiral.

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

Fellow Quaker Lawrie Tatum was appointed as Hoover's guardian.

It was dubbed " Hooverizing " by government publicists, in spite of Hoover's continual orders that publicity should not mention him by name.

The NCC was an example of Hoover's belief in volunteerism as a mechanism in aiding the economy.

The uncle of Hoover's mother was a Swiss honorary consul general to the United States.

Hoover's was not filed until 1938, when he was 43.

America's First Red Scare was beginning, and one of Hoover's first assignments was to carry out the Palmer Raids.

In 1979, there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, reported that Hoover's FBI " failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President ".

The HSCA further reported that Hoover's FBI " was deficient in its sharing of information with other agencies and departments ".

Hoover's biographer Richard Hack does not believe that the director was gay.

Hack notes that Hoover was romantically linked to actress Dorothy Lamour in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and that after Hoover's death, Lamour did not deny rumors that she had had an affair with Hoover in the years between her two marriages.

The singer Ethel Merman, who was a friend of Hoover's since 1938, said in a 1978 interview: " Some of my best friends are homosexual.

" Hoover's report led to a realization in Washington that a new policy was needed ; " almost any action would be an improvement " on current policy.

Hoover's express purpose was to collect the records of contemporary history as it was happening.

Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.

" To attract votes from farmers concerned about Hoover's pro-business orientation, it was instead offered to Senator Curtis, who accepted.

The theme of the campaign was an all-out attack on Hoover's economic failures, with the incumbent hard pressed to defend himself.

When his job at the post office was eliminated by Hoover's policies of the Great Depression, he was forced to go on relief in 1931.

The countercultural movement was also under covert assault by J. Edgar Hoover's infamous " Counter Intelligence Program " ( COINTELPRO ), but in some countries it was other youth groups that were a threat.

As Commerce Secretary, Hoover also hosted two national conferences on street traffic, in 1924 and 1926 ( a third convened in 1930, during Hoover's presidency ).

Strauss worked hard and well, and soon was promoted to Hoover's private secretary, a post in which he made powerful contacts that would serve him later on.

" The Hoover Foundation website .< sup ></ sup ></ ref > Hoover's leather goods business was threatened by the introduction of the motor car.

Hoover's extreme sense of the Communist threat and the politically conservative standards of evidence applied by his bureau resulted in thousands of government workers losing their jobs.

However, Hoover's petitions failed to meet state election standards when many of the signatures were ruled unacceptable.

Eight miles to his right, the corps of Lt. Gen. William J. Hardee was fortified in Wartrace, protecting the main road to Chattanooga and positioned to reinforce the other three passes through the Highland Rim —( from west to east ) Bell Buckle Gap, Liberty Gap, and Hoover's Gap.

During Hoover's 1907 visit to Australia, Jim Lyster relocated from Gwalia to Broken Hill and began experiments which resulted in the " Lyster Process ", which enabled the Zinc Corporation to operate the world's first selective or differential flotation plant, from September 1912.

After World War II, Hoover's mining work in the Kyshtym area of Russia proved invaluable to American intelligence agencies.

At its peak, Hoover's American Relief Administration | ARA fed 10. 5 million people daily.

Many of Hoover's efforts as Commerce Secretary centered on eliminating waste and increasing efficiency in business and industry.

Hoover's radio conferences played a key role in the early organization, development and regulation of radio broadcasting.

Hoover's attempts at regulating radio were not supported by all Congressmen, and he received much opposition from the Senate and from radio station owners.

However, Hoover's contributions to regulate radio in its infancy heavily influenced the modern radio system.

By the end of Hoover's service as Secretary, he had raised the status of the Department of Commerce.

The treatment of African-Americans during the disaster endangered Hoover's reputation as a humanitarian.

Hoover's appeal to white voters yielded substantial results, including Republican victories in Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, and Texas.

The delegates did consider nominating Vice President Charles Dawes to be Hoover's running mate.

Hoover's reputation, experience, and popularity coalesced to give him the nomination on the first ballot, with Senator Charles Curtis named as his running mate.

Historians agree that Hoover's national reputation and the booming economy, combined with deep splits in the Democratic Party over religion and prohibition, guaranteed his landslide victory with 58 % of the vote.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

Hoover's humanitarian and Quaker reputation, along with Curtis as a vice-president, gave special meaning to his Indian policies.

Hoover's stance on the economy had been based largely on voluntarism.

Prior to the start of the Great Depression, Hoover's first Treasury Secretary, Andrew Mellon, had proposed and seen enacted, numerous tax cuts, which cut the top income tax rate from 73 % to 24 % ( under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge ).