It is argued that it was Hoover's March 1947 statements in his report that led to the end of the Morgenthau plan and to a change in U. S. policy.

This brigade became the 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Corps, which he led at the Battle of Hoover's Gap.

Wilbur's wife, the former Marguerite May Blake, was a college friend of Hoover's wife, and was one of Lou Hoover's closest friends in Washington during Mrs. Hoover's years as First Lady.

On a radio broadcast on March 1, 1932, the day of Cardozo's confirmation, Clarence C. Dill, Democratic Senator for Washington, called Hoover's appointment of Cardozo " the finest act of his career as President ".

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1931 to March 4, 1933, during the last two years of Herbert C. Hoover's presidency.

Whiting's appointment by President Coolidge to succeed Herbert Hoover surprised the Washington establishment, which had expected the position to be filled by Hoover's preferred candidate, Dr. Julius Klein, the director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1929 to March 4, 1931, during the first two years of Herbert Hoover's presidency.

Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus speculated in June 1971 that Hoover's name would be eventually attached to the building.

Walter Washington, who reportedly refused FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's suggestion to shoot the rioters, went on to become the city's first elected mayor and its first black mayor.

Hoover's business began to flourish, and, a year after Hoover acquired the patent from Spangler, he established a research and development department for his new business.

Ritchie agreed to issue state bonds to aid Baltimore, but would not borrow from President Herbert Hoover's new Reconstruction Finance Corporation until mid-1933, and his luxury tax program met stiff opposition from county representatives opposed to new tobacco taxes.

Herbert Hoover's situation reports from 1947, and " A Report on Germany " also served to help change occupation policy.

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.

Hoover's chief objective was to address the growing casualty toll of traffic accidents, but the scope grew and soon embraced motor vehicle standards, rules of the road, and urban traffic control.

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 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.

Akerson was one of three secretaries to the President, and some speculated that Hoover's closeness to his other secretary, Lawrence Richey, a former detective and Secret Service agent, made it difficult for Akerson to obtain the kind of information he needed to effectively do his job.

As the year 1932 began, the Republican Party believed Hoover's protectionism and aggressive fiscal policies would solve the depression ; in any case, President Herbert Hoover controlled the party.

The Economics of Location, 1954 ) ; and Edgar M. Hoover's two books -- Location Theory and the Shoe and Leather Industry ( 1938 ) and The Location of Economic Activity ( 1948 ).

Hoover's reasons for his surprising reorganization of the RFC included: the broken health and resignations of Eugene Meyer, Paul Bestor, and Charles Gates Dawes ; the failure of banks to perform their duties to their clientele or to aid American industry ; the country's general lack of confidence in the current board ; and Hoover's inability to find any other man who had the ability and was both nationally respected and available.

When Hoover died, Tolson inherited his estate of $ 551, 000 and moved into his house ; he accepted the U. S. flag draped on Hoover's coffin.

France, on the other hand, had a relatively small stake in Germany's private debt but a huge interest in German reparations ; and payment to France would be compromised under Hoover's moratorium.

The Bonus Army incident proved disastrous for Hoover's chances at re-election ; he lost the 1932 election in a landslide to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

In the US, Hoover's competition includes: Royal, Dirt Devil, and Vax ( all of which are owned by Hoover's Hong Kong owner Techtronic Industries ); Kirby ; Eureka ; Dyson ; Electrolux ; Oreck ; Panasonic ; Bissell ; and Kenmore ( the house brand of American store chain Sears, which is manufactured predominantly by Panasonic ).

In 2004, Maytag announced that it would consolidate its corporate office and back office operations in Newton, Iowa and close almost all of Hoover's overlapping functions.

The strong economy gave Hoover's Republican Party victory in the election, picking up 32 House seats, almost all from the opposition Democratic Party, and increasing their majority.

Hoover's Gap was almost undefended ; it was a four-mile-long pass between the 1100-foot ridges separating the Stones and Duck Rivers.