Jones was a friend and admirer of William Jennings Bryan but also campaigned throughout the South for Herbert Hoover ( and against Al Smith ) during the 1928 presidential election.

Mrs. Roosevelt came out of retirement and campaigned briefly for Herbert Hoover in his bid for re-election, thus campaigning against her nephew-in-law Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

During the 1928 presidential election, Jones campaigned throughout the South for Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Al Smith.

Though Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes campaigned for his opponent, in the December 1926 special election Walsh won the right to complete the remaining two years of Lodge's term, defeating William Morgan Butler, a friend of Coolidge and head of the Republican National Committee.

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.

* 1930 – Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US $ 150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.

These discussions led to negotiations for Coppola to both produce and direct the Pinocchio project for Warner, as well as Secret Garden and Hoover.

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.

America was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.

After a brief stay with one of his grandmothers in Kingsley, Iowa, Hoover lived for the next 18 months with his uncle Allen Hoover in West Branch.

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

Hoover was made a partner in Bewick, Moreing & Co. on December 18, 1901 and assumed responsibility for various Australian operations and investments.

Hoover was a director of Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation ( CEMC ) when it became a supplier of coolie labor for South African mines.

By 1914, Hoover stood eventually to obtain what he later described as " a large fortune from these Russian industries, probably more than is good for anybody ".

When Belgium faced a food crisis after being invaded by Germany, Hoover undertook an unprecedented relief effort with the Commission for Relief in Belgium ( CRB ).

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.

Hoover established set days to encourage people to avoid eating particular foods to save them for soldiers ' rations: meatless Mondays, wheatless Wednesdays, and " when in doubt, eat potatoes.

After the war, as a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration, Hoover organized shipments of food for millions of starving people in Central Europe.

Also, Hoover confessed that he could not run for a party whose only member in his boyhood home had been the town drunk.

In this 1926 photo, William P. McCracken, assistant secretary of commerce for civil aviation, is shown with Secretary Hoover ( center ) and assistant secretary of commerce Walter Drake.

Even when it deadlocked for several ballots between Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and General Leonard Wood, few delegates seriously considered Hoover as a compromise choice.

Although he had personal misgivings about the capability of the nominee, Warren G. Harding, Hoover publicly endorsed him and made two speeches for Harding.

After being elected, Harding rewarded Hoover for his support, offering to appoint him either Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Commerce.

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

What historians have identified as " business progressivism ", with its emphasis on efficiency and typified by Henry Ford and Herbert Hoover reached an apogee in the 1920s.

The FBI, in agreeing with the GAO's report, said its highest priority was to abandon the J. Edgar Hoover Building and to construct a new, larger headquarters capable of bringing the FBI's scattered workforce under one roof, improving intra-agency efficiency, and reducing building operational and maintenance costs.

The Republican Party then became notably more committed to business-oriented and efficiency oriented progressivism, typified by Taft and Herbert Hoover.

With the bouncy popular song " Happy Days Are Here Again " as his campaign theme, FDR defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depth of the Great Depression.

In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected-office experience.

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

To gain Republican votes in Southern states, Hoover pioneered an electoral tactic later known as the " Southern Strategy ".

When Calvin Coolidge announced in 1928 that he would not seek a full term of office in the 1928 Presidential Election, Hoover became the leading Republican candidate, despite the fact Coolidge was lukewarm on Hoover, often deriding his ambitious and popular Commerce Secretary as " Wonder Boy ".

First Lady Lou Hoover defied custom and invited an African-American Republican, Oscar DePriest, a member in the House of Representatives, to dinner at the White House.

** U. S. presidential election, 1928: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin over Democrat Alfred E. Smith.

* November 8 – U. S. presidential election, 1932: Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.

The United States presidential election of 1928 pitted Republican Herbert Hoover against Democrat Al Smith.

The Republican Convention, held in Kansas City, Missouri from June 12 to June 15, nominated Hoover on the first ballot.

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.

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.

The last Republican Presidential candidate to carry the county was Herbert Hoover in 1928 and the last Republican gubernatorial candidate to carry the county was Daniel J. Evans in 1964.

It reportedly was the strongest county for Calvin Coolidge in 1924, Herbert Hoover in 1932 and Alf Landon in 1936 The Republican candidate has continued to consistently win since 1956.

In 1928, Herbert Hoover became the first and only Republican presidential candidate to ever carry Houston County.

The Republican National Chairman, William Butler, pledged to nominate then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, but he was not sufficiently popular.

In 1928, the Republican nomination went to Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.

In 1928 Curtis ran with Herbert Hoover heading the Republican ticket for president and vice-president.

From there he travelled to the USA, where he was received in the White House by US President Herbert Hoover, who, as Republican presidential candidate had lobbied for his release.

Most importantly, this was a time of national prosperity under a Republican Presidency and Smith lost in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover.