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Hoover and learned
Though he did not attend high school, the young Hoover attended night school and learned bookkeeping, typing, and mathematics.
Hoover and his wife learned Mandarin Chinese while he worked in China and used it during his tenure at the White House when they wanted to foil eavesdroppers.
After an unsuccessful stint working on a sheep ranch, he found work with a hunter and trapper turned rancher named Jake Hoover, who owned a ranch in the Judith Basin, and from whom Russell learned much about the ways of the west.
* Hoover ( seal ), a harbor seal that learned to imitate basic human speech
Bob Hoover learned to fly at Nashville's Berry Field while working at a local grocery store to pay for the flight training.
While a judge, he also served as an active member of a blue-ribbon " National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement ," better known as the " Wickersham Commission ," appointed by President Herbert Hoover to assess the lessons learned from prohibition, among other things.
Hoover had learned from the SOLO brothers, Morris and Jack Childs, who were members of the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ), but in fact were double agents working against the Soviet Active Measures program of the KGB, that one of King's consultants, Stanley Levinson, was an important active member of the CPUSA.

Hoover and trip
Hoover accompanied Harding on his final trip out West in 1923.
While on his trip to Alaska in 1923, President Harding asked reporters and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, how he should respond to associates who may have betrayed him.
The trip was scheduled to include 18 speeches and innumerable informal talks, and accompanying him were Secretaries Work, Wallace, and Hoover, House Speaker Gillett and Rear Adm. Adam Hugh Rodman.
* Geoff Pierson — Mr. Perfect, dad's competition on a family trip to the Hoover Dam.
On a trip to Manila in 1935, she met General MacArthur aboard the S. S. President Hoover.
The assault buggies of Sector 7 were used by Epps and Lennox during their trip from the Hoover dam to Mission City, where they battled the Decepticons.

Hoover and negotiated
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.

Hoover and with
And those still with us, Herbert C. Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.
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.
* Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts ( 28 June 1972 ) from the Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives.
Eager to work with both Laurents and Sondheim, Angela Lansbury accepted the lead role as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, despite her strong misgivings about the script and her ability to handle the score.
presented a staged concert from April 8 through April 11, 2010, with Sutton Foster as Nurse Fay Apple, Donna Murphy as Mayoress Cora Hoover Hooper, and Raul Esparza as Hapgood, with direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw.
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.
The FBI Laboratory, established with the formation of the BOI, did not appear in the J. Edgar Hoover Building until its completion in 1974.
Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents ( along with William Howard Taft ) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank.
Hoover, a trained engineer, believed strongly in the Efficiency Movement, which held that the government and the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by experts who could identify the problems and solve them.
When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.
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 graduated in 1895 with a degree in geology.
" Working with his brother, Theodore J. Hoover, Minerals Separation Ltd and his own company, Hoover was supplying the world's industries, such as steel, with zinc and other vital base minerals.
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.
By 1914, Hoover was an extremely wealthy man, with an estimated personal fortune of $ 4m He was once quoted as saying " If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is forty, he is not worth much ".
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 ).

Hoover and Service
Hoover expanded civil service coverage of Federal positions, canceled private oil leases on government lands, and by instructing the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service to pursue gangsters for tax evasion, he enabled the prosecution of mobster Al Capone.
In 1964, just days before Hoover testified in the earliest stages of the Warren Commission hearings, President Lyndon B. Johnson waived the then-mandatory U. S. Government Service Retirement Age of seventy, allowing Hoover to remain the FBI Director " for life.
* In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson bestowed the State Department's Distinguished Service Award on Hoover for his service as director of the FBI.
The list arose from a conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, and William Kinsey Hutchinson, International News Service ( the predecessor of the United Press International ) Editor-in-Chief, who were discussing ways to promote capture of the FBI's " toughest guys ".
He came to Georgetown's School of Foreign Service after leaving Stanford's Hoover Institution and was appointed by School of Foreign Service Dean, Ambassador Robert Gallucci.
The triangle includes such federal buildings as the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, the Herbert C. Hoover Building ( Department of Commerce ), and the buildings of the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Roosevelt first considered the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to build the project, but instead transferred it to the Bureau of Reclamation ( back then the Reclamation Service ) which had expertise building large dams as demonstrated at the Hoover Dam ( Boulder Canyon Project ) several years earlier.
Under USDA Forest Service administration, the mountain was proclaimed " Holy Cross National Monument " by Herbert Hoover on May 11, 1929.
* John Bachman: A Life of Service, a short biographical sketch written in the late 1970s by Mary Bachman Hoover, Bachman's granddaughter
On September 26, 1932, the 143rd anniversary of the founding of the U. S. Postal Service, President Hoover laid the cornerstone of the Post Office Department building ( although the foundation had already been laid, and the steel superstructure of the building was already three stories high ).
The FBI developed a detailed file on Clarence 13X ; in 1967, Hoover described him as a potential threat to the President of the U. S., and sent a detailed folder about him to the United States Secret Service.
At that time, GSA's commissioner of the Public Building Service, Bob Peck, said that GSA preferred to sell the Hoover Building and its site to a private developer and not specify whether the structure should be maintained or demolished.
The Hoover Wilderness was originally designated as a Primitive Area by the Forest Service in 1931.
In 1970 Kelley received the J. Edgar Hoover Gold Medal for Outstanding Job Service, presented by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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