In the early 20th century Charles Berkey, an American trained geologist who was considered the first American engineering geologist, worked on a number of water supply projects for New York City, then later worked on the Hoover dam and a multitude of other engineering projects.

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 was originally a professional mining engineer and author.

Hoover worked as chief engineer for the Chinese Bureau of Mines, and as general manager for the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation.

Among the foreigners besieged in Tianjin was a young American mining engineer named Herbert Hoover.

This was the second construction site in history where construction workers were required to wear hard hats ( the first being the Hoover Dam project in 1931, as mandated by Six Companies, Inc ), by order of Joseph Strauss, the project chief engineer.

When Coolidge declined to run again in the 1928 election, the Republican Party nominated engineer and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who was elected by a wide margin over Al Smith, the first Catholic nominee.

The primary designer and overseer of construction was veteran Reclamation engineer Lem F. Wylie, who had worked on the Hoover Dam project and had been chief engineer of six other USBR dams.

* Herbert Hoover, Jr. ( 1903-1969 ), the son of President of Herbert Hoover ; a successful engineer and businessman

* Allan Henry Hoover ( 1907 – 1993 )-mining engineer.

Snell's relations with the engineer president soured slightly when Hoover tried unsuccessfully to seize the initiative in New York patronage.

* James Hoover – engineer, vocal engineer

Also in Tientsin, helping to fortify the place, was an American, the civilian engineer Herbert Hoover, later President of the United States.

Francis Trenholm Crowe ( – ) was the chief engineer of the Hoover Dam.

His parents, Eugene “ Genie ” Lincoln Falkenburg ( an engineer involved in the construction of the Hoover Dam ) and Marguerite “ Mickey ” Crooks Falkenburg were amateur tennis players.

* Frank Crowe, ( 1901 ) civil engineer and dam builder ( Hoover Dam, Shasta Dam )

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the internment, not on constitutional grounds, but because he believed that the most likely spies had already been arrested by the FBI shortly after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hoover believed " food will win the war ", and beginning on September 29, this slogan was introduced and put into frequent use.

Hoover briefly considered becoming a Democrat, but he believed that 1920 would be a Republican year.

Hoover rejected direct federal relief payments to individuals, as he believed that a dole would be addictive, and would reduce the incentive to work.

Although it is widely believed that all of these were ghostwritten by FBI employees, Hoover received the credit and royalties.

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.

Although three agents shot Dillinger, Winstead was believed to be the man who fired the fatal shot, and he received a personal letter of commendation from Director Hoover.

Hoover believed in stimulus spending, and encourage state and local governments, as well as the federal government, to spend heavily on public buildings, roads, bridges — and, most famously, the Hoover dam on the Colorado River.

" It is believed that Harvey's friendship with Hoover helped Harvey escape criminal charges relating to his trespassing at Argonne National Laboratory.

Captain Gilbert C. Hoover, commanding officer of the and senior officer present in the battle-damaged US task force, was skeptical that anyone had survived the sinking of the Juneau and believed it would be reckless to look for survivors, thereby exposing his wounded ships to a still-lurking Japanese submarine.

Hoover believed his successful management of this difficult emergency should have convinced the FAA that his capabilities were as good as ever.

Bloopers came into prominence in 1931, when radio announcer Harry Von Zell mispronounced the name of then-President of the United States Herbert Hoover as " Hoobert Heever " on the air, but Schafer's is believed to be the first attempt at collecting and presenting them.

The mysterious " Mr Guver " letter, sent to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1943 from an anonymous source now widely believed to be KGB Officer Vassili Mironov, named Morros as an agent working with Soviet intelligence and identified Elizabeth Zarubina as Morros ' contact.

One medical expert told Summers that Hoover was of " strongly predominant homosexual orientation ", while another medical expert categorized him as a " bisexual with failed heterosexuality ”.

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.

The Italian government protested and President Hoover, who strongly disliked Butler, forced Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams III to court-martial him.

Justice Harlan Fiske Stone strongly urged Hoover to name Cardozo, even offering to resign to make room for him if Hoover had his heart set on someone else ( Stone had in fact suggested to Calvin Coolidge that he should nominate Cardozo rather than himself back in 1925 ).

The theory strongly influenced Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt to engage in massive public works projects.

His biography of Trotsky was positively reviewed in the British and American press on its publication, but two years later was strongly criticized by Service's Hoover Institution colleague Bertrand Patenaude in a review for the American Historical Review.

The Efficiency Movement attracted Progressive Republicans like Herbert Hoover with its pro-business, quasi-engineering approach to solving social and economic problems.

This led Herbert Hoover to appoint two commissions, including one headed by a former US governor of the Philippines William Cameron Forbes, which criticized the exclusion of Haitians from positions of authority in the government and constabulary, now known as the Garde d ' Haïti.

Hoover fought for more power to control the proliferation of licensed radio stations ( which in 1927, stood at 732 stations ).

With help from Dill and White, Hoover promoted the Dill-White Bill which eventually would become the Radio Act of 1927.

Hoover invented his own sport to keep fit while in the White House, a combination of volleyball and tennis, which he played every morning.

Hoover saw volunterism as preferable to governmental coercion or intervention which he saw as opposed to the American ideals of individualism and self-reliance.

He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.

He began withdrawing American troops from Nicaragua and Haiti ; he also proposed an arms embargo on Latin America and a one-third reduction of the world's naval power, which was called the Hoover Plan.

In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, he and Secretary of State Henry Stimson outlined the Hoover – Stimson Doctrine which held that the United States would not recognize territories gained by force.

Hoover feared that too much intervention or coercion by the government would destroy individuality and self-reliance, which he considered to be important American values.

The final attempt of the Hoover Administration to rescue the economy occurred in 1932 with the passage of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, which authorized funds for public works programs and the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ).

Summers also said that the Mafia had blackmail material on Hoover, which made Hoover reluctant to aggressively pursue organized crime.

* In 1938, Oklahoma Baptist University awarded Hoover an honorary doctorate during commencement exercises at which he spoke.

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 ).

Stanford also houses the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a major public policy think tank that attracts visiting scholars from around the world, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, which is dedicated to the more specific study of international relations.

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

* 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.

Dewey alienated former president and fellow Republican Herbert Hoover during the campaign by ignoring him at the funeral of Wendell Willkie ; according to historian William Leuchtenburg, Hoover confided to a friend that " Dewey has no inner reservoir of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking ," elaborating that " A man couldn't wear a mustache like that without having it affect his mind.

Only two are known to have survived, one of which can be found in the Hoover Historical Center.

Hoover is also notable for an unusual vacuum cleaner, the Hoover Constellation, which is a cylinder type but lacks wheels.

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover played a large role regarding regulation because he issued the licenses which allocated the spectrum.

Between 1923 and 1924, Hoover expanded the number of assigned frequencies to reduce the interference, but his quick fix failed which in turned ended self-regulation of spectrum space.