She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

Sent to Montpelier by Secretary Herbert Hoover, Red Cross Aide Reuben Sleight had been killed, and his pilot, Lt. Franklin Wolfe, badly injured.

J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him, tried to end his United States residency.

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, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary ( President Kennedy was the other ; he donated all his paychecks to charity ).

The Hoovers had two sons, Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. ( 1903 – 69 ) and Allan Henry Hoover ( 1907 – 93 ).

It recalled the nickname he had acquired in the Australian outback: " Hail Columbia " Hoover.

Sixty-six years after opening the mine in 1897, Hoover still had a partial share in the Sons of Gwalia mines when it finally closed in 1963, just one year before the former President's death in New York City in 1964.

Herbert Hoover, acting as a main investor, financier, mining speculator and organizer of men, played a major role in the important metallurgical developments that occurred in Broken Hill in the first decade of the twentieth century, developments that had a great impact on the world mining and production of silver, lead and zinc.

It was determined that Hoover had given extremely detailed maps of the area to Stanford University.

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

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

Coolidge had been reluctant to choose Hoover as his successor ; on one occasion he remarked that " for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice — all of it bad.

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 mediated between Chile and Peru to solve a conflict on the sovereignty of Arica and Tacna, that in 1883 by the Treaty of Ancón had been awarded to Chile for ten years, to be followed by a plebiscite that had never happened.

Hoover had long been a proponent of the concept that public-private cooperation was the way to achieve high long-term growth.

When Hoover took over the Bureau of Investigation, it had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents.

Hoover said the Bureau had " much more important functions " than arresting bookmakers and gamblers.

In 1956, several years before he targeted King, Hoover had a public showdown with T. R. M.

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.

Hoover left Bewick Moreing & Co in 1908 and, setting out on his own, eventually ended up with investments on every continent and offices in San Francisco, London, New York City, St. Petersburg, Paris and Mandalay, Burma.

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

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.

Since the list began, every serving President of the United States has been a Person of the Year at least once with the exceptions of Calvin Coolidge, in office at time of the first issue, Herbert Hoover, the next U. S. president, and Gerald Ford.

Hoover fires Littell from the FBI, revokes his pension, and blackballs him as a communist sympathizer with every US state's bar association in order to hurt his chances of practicing law.

These are not libraries in the modern sense, but rather repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and other historical materials of every President of the United States since Herbert Hoover.

With the exception of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, and upon their own deaths, Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, every American president since Hoover is or has chosen to be buried at his presidential library.

There is a program every night in the spacious Hoover Auditorium, twenty-six shuffleboard courts, tennis courts, and all kinds of children's activities.

Fairfoull had been present at every Idlewild show since the summer of 1996, and had impressed the others with his spoken-word, solo acoustic shows as well as his performances with Edinburgh band, Pussy Hoover.

SLAC ( SLAC ): The SLAC shuttle operates Monday through Friday year round ( except campus holidays ) between SLAC and Hoover Tower by way of the Oak Creek Apartments located on Sand Hill Road, West Campus Residences, and the Science & Engineering Quad, from 7: 35 a. m. to 9: 05 p. m., every 20 minutes until the afternoon peak commute ( 4: 15 p. m. to 6: 45 p. m .) when service is every 15 to 30 minutes.

Since then, every U. S. president has publicly acknowledged the contributions of OSIA, including Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W.

Hoover was a consultant to Warner Bros. for a 1959 theatrical film about the FBI, The FBI Story, and in 1965 on Warner Bros .' long-running spin-off television series, The F. B. I.

* Broderick Crawford and James Wainwright in the Larry Cohen film The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover ( 1977 ).

* Ernest Borgnine in both the television film Blood Feud ( 1983 ) and Hollywood film Hoover ( 2000 ).

* Jack Warden in the television film Hoover vs.

* Treat Williams in the television film J. Edgar Hoover ( 1987 ).

Mary Pickford giving President Herbert Hoover a ticket for a film industry benefit for the unemployed, 1931

The film received mixed reviews, although DiCaprio's performance as Hoover was widely praised.

The film project, which was recommended to Jack Warner by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, drew on the real-life experiences of agent Leon Turrou, who had worked as an undercover agent.

* The 1977 film The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover portrayed by Dan Dailey

* Walter Hoover, fictional character in James Curtis's novel They Drive by Night, and played by Ernest Thesiger in the 1938 film adaptation.

Zhuangzhi was the only film made by Chinese American Film, founded by Lai and Brodsky as the first movie studio in Hong Kong, and was never actually shown in the territory ( Stokes and Hoover, 1999 ).

In 2009, he appeared as Doctor Manhattan in the film Watchmen and as J. Edgar Hoover in the film Public Enemies.

This claim is contradicted however, when the film depicts the Allspark displacing mass when it reduces itself from its Hoover Dam filling size to one that Sam is capable of carrying around.

The film was written and directed by Lee Frost, and stars Sondra Currie ( who would later be better known to recent audiences for her role in the Golden Globe-winning comedy The Hangover ), Tony Young, and Phil Hoover.

The SSEC appeared in the film Walk East on Beacon based on a book by J. Edgar Hoover.

Hoover even forced LeRoy to re-shoot several scenes he didn't think portrayed the FBI in an appropriate light, and played a pivotal role in the casting for the film.

Hoover and LeRoy were personal friends, but Hoover only approved the film after he had a file of " dirt " created on LeRoy.

Hoover himself appears briefly in the film.

In Transformers: The Reign of Starscream ( the comic book sequel to the first film ), Starscream uses the knowledge gained by Frenzy while inside the Hoover Dam complex from Sector 7 to build a new cube.

He is perhaps best known for his role in the 1996 film Tremors 2: Aftershocks as cab driver Grady Hoover.

The film then moves forward some months to an ongoing trial, where Hoover is attempting to persuade a jury that his actions were necessary to grant his daughter's spirit peace.