In 1931 Hoover issued the Hoover Moratorium, calling for a one-year halt in reparation payments by Germany to France and in the payment of Allied war debts to the United States.

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

By a law signed on March 3, 1931 by President Herbert Hoover, " The Star-Spangled Banner " was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.

Their remains were re-interred December 20, 1927, at the newly completed Harding Memorial in Marion, dedicated by President Herbert Hoover on June 16, 1931.

In fact, his reputation was so controversial, it was not until 1931 that President Harding's marble memorial colonnade in Marion was ably dedicated by Herbert Hoover.

Named after Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration ( 1929 – 1933 ), the policy followed Japan's unilateral seizure of Manchuria in northeastern China following action by Japanese soldiers at Mukden ( now Shenyang ), on September 18, 1931.

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).

In 1931, President Herbert Hoover annexed an adjoining area south of the park, and in 1942 an additional was added.

On September 24, 1918, now a captain, he was named commander of the squadron, and on the following day, he claimed two more German planes, for which he was belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor in 1931 by President Herbert Hoover.

Clampett attended both Glendale High School and Hoover High School in Glendale California but left Hoover a few months short of graduating in 1931.

Construction of the Hoover Dam began in late 1931 and finished in 1936, two years ahead of schedule.

* Birthplace of Herbert Hoover ( 1931 )

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.

The Hoover Moratorium of 1931, a proposal made by American President Herbert Hoover to freeze all intergovernmental debt for a one-year period, was, according to author and political advisor McGeorge Bundy, " the most significant action taken by an American president for Europe since Woodrow Wilson's administration.

In 1931, Steck was considered the favorite for appointment by President Herbert Hoover to a seat reserved for a Democrat on the Tariff Commission.

He then served from 1924 to 1932 as director of finance for the Interior Department, and for a short time in 1931 as a special advisor to President Herbert Hoover.

In 1931, the College Republicans were absorbed as an arm of the Hoover campaign.

Curtius was intimately involved in the negotiations that led to the issuing of the Hoover Moratorium by the U. S President Herbert Hoover that halted war reparations payments by Germany in June 1931 as part of the effort to limit the financial fall-out of the banking collapse.

Boulder City, Nevada was originally built in 1931 for housing for workers who were building Hoover Dam.

In 1931 his firm was one of the prime contractors in building the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, and the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams on the Columbia River.

The entire faculty of the University of Chicago Law School had urged Hoover to nominate him, as did the deans of the law schools at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia.

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 ).

Although he was reportedly urged by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to shoot the rioters, he refused.

The FBI is headquartered at the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D. C., with 56 field offices in major cities across the United States.

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.

Hoover contributed to major projects for navigation, irrigation of dry lands, electrical power, and flood control.

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.

The American Society of Civil Engineers cite the many transformative projects that have shaped the growth of the United States including the Transcontinental Railroad that connected major cities from the Atlantic to Pacific coast ; the Panama Canal that revolutionized shipment in connected the two oceans in the Western hemisphere ; the Interstate Highway System that spawned the mobility of the masses ; and still others that include the Hoover Dam, Trans-Alaskan pipeline, and many bridges ( the Golden Gate, Brooklyn, and Bay Bridge ).

Most of the major dams in the river basin were built between 1910 and 1970, with the system keystone, Hoover Dam, completed in 1935.

Hoover Field, near the present site of the Pentagon, was the first major terminal to be developed in the Capital area, opening its doors in 1926.

Hoover, as the former United States Food Administrator, president of the Federated Engineering Societies, and then Secretary of Commerce in the Harding Cabinet in 1921, invited the heads of several " forward-looking " major corporations to meet with him.

In 1956 former President Hoover, under the auspices of the Institute and Library, launched a major fundraising campaign that allowed the Institute to realize its current form as a think tank and archive.

Arizona also had qualms over the chosen site of Hoover Dam, because it was located in a relatively inaccessible northwestern corner of the state and was too far to provide water to the Gila River Valley, its major population center.

The Bureau of Reclamation, desirous of a major project that would bolster its reputation, was focusing on the Boulder Canyon Project that resulted in the Hoover Dam.

In his book Masters of Deceit, J. Edgar Hoover described entryist tactics by Soviet agents to infiltrate school boards, trade unions, and major party precinct organizations.

* Samuel P. Bush ( 1863 – 1948 ), a close adviser to President Hoover, was president of the Ohio Association of Manufacturers and a major Columbus industrialist.

Gantt charts were employed on major infrastructure projects including the Hoover Dam and Interstate highway system and continue to be an important tool in project management.

A major contributor was Miriam Hoover ( of The Hoover Company ) who donated $ 1 million.

His major role was drafting speeches, most notably one that FDR delivered in Pittsburgh denouncing the reckless spending of the Hoover administration and calling for a very conservative fiscal policy.

Tours of Hoover Dam – administered by the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation – are also a major attraction within the recreation area.

His most important role was to head the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ), ( 1932 – 45 ), a federal agency originally created by Herbert Hoover that played a major role in combating the Great Depression and financing industrial expansion in World War II.

It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century, it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the " Hoover " brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Today, the Hoover Europe Brand, as part of the portfolio of brands owned by Candy Group, remains a major player in the European white goods and floor care sectors in a number of countries.

In 1992, the British division of Hoover announced the Hoover free flights promotion, the demand for which rose far beyond the company's expectations, resulting in major costs and public relations problems for the British division and Maytag, which eventually led to its sale to the Italian manufacturer Candy.

The Olympia was also a major venue for boxing through the International Boxing Club ( featuring such prominent fights as Jake LaMotta's defeat of Sugar Ray Robinson ) and professional wrestling, as well as other events such as the American Legion Convention of September 21 – 26, 1931 which was addressed by President Herbert Hoover, and regular visits by the Harlem Globetrotters, Ice Capades, and Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies.