Water for delivery to Mexico is provided by the additional amount released from Glen Canyon – about in the average year – as well as tributaries entering the Colorado between Glen Canyon and Hoover Dam, as well as tributaries below Hoover, although many of those have been diverted for irrigation in central Arizona.

The city also expanded its municipal-owned public utility system ( the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ), and Cryer was instrumental in the passage of the legislation that provided for the construction of the Hoover Dam and All-American Canal, providing water and electricity to Los Angeles.

After a personal inspection of the area by President Herbert Hoover, the Corps drafted a new plan which provided for the construction of floodway channels, control gates, and major levees along Lake Okeechobee's shores.

After a personal inspection of the area by President Herbert Hoover, the Corps drafted a new plan which provided for the construction of floodway channels, control gates, and major levees along Lake Okeechobee's shores.

In Nebraska, Democratic Governor Charles W. Bryan ( brother of William Jennings Bryan and the party's Vice President nominee in 1924 ) was at first unwilling to request aid from the Hoover administration.

Cooper's persistence in requesting such aid was critical in getting the package approved, as it was opposed by many administration officials, including Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover, Jr., Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, and International Cooperation Administration Director John B. Hollister.

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.

Although they ran again in 1932, the population saw Hoover as failing to alleviate the Great Depression, and they were defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner.

On March 21, 1930, Parker was nominated by President Herbert Hoover to the United States Supreme Court, but was defeated by one vote in the Senate as a result of political opposition.

Roberts was appointed to the Supreme Court by Herbert Hoover after Hoover's nomination of John J. Parker was defeated by the Senate.

( Al Smith from New York received the national nomination but was soundly defeated by Republican candidate Herbert Hoover.

On December 2, 2011, Prattville High defeated Hoover High to win the Alabama High School Athletic Association's Super 6 Class 6A state football title, its fifth overall ( 1984, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011 ).

He came out for the Democrats " despite the fact that my family for generations has been Republican ," and shared the platform when Republican Senator George W. Norris opened a coast-to-coast stump for FDR in Philadelphia .... Butler was pleased with the election results that saw Hoover defeated ; although he admitted that he had exerted himself in the campaign more " to get rid of Hoover than to put in Roosevelt ," and to " square a debt.

In 1928, he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for U. S. Vice President, yet was defeated by Charles Curtis, who would win with Herbert Hoover as President.

Jackson defeated Hoover 14-13, setting the stage for a 1965-1966 championship run.

His father, Jessie Hoover, was a blacksmith and farm implement store owner who was of German ( Pfautz, Wehmeyer ) and German-Swiss ( Huber, Burkhart ) descent.

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

Hoover further noted that, " The whole economy of Europe is interlinked with German economy through the exchange of raw materials and manufactured goods.

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.

Hoover is a surname: Hoover is a variant spelling of the German Huber, a status name for a landowner or a prosperous small farmer.

Herbert Hoover got a German shepherd dog during his campaign, King Tut, and pictures of him with his new dog were sent all across the United States during his campaign.

The German nationality of SCADTA's ownership motivated the U. S. government to subsidize Pan American World Airways ' expansion in Latin America under the Hoover administration.

In a report on the German situation after 2 years of occupation, former President Herbert Hoover would in March 1947 remark:

From 1982-92 he was a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, publishing articles and books on international strategy, the West German peace movement, U. S. foreign policy, Nordic politics, and a history of West Germany.

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.

On poverty, Hoover said that " Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation ", and promised, " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land ," but within months, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.

Hoover welcomed the two as " ambassadors of the greatest sporting nation in the world.

On December 3 U. S. President Herbert Hoover announced to the U. S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash were behind the nation, and that the American people had regained faith in the economy.

With Palmer's backing, Hoover warned the nation to expect the worst: assassinations, bombings, and general strikes.

Herbert Hoover asks Rogers to give a speech to the nation, and everyone is inspired.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

Lee Ohanian, from UCLA takes a controversial stance, arguing that Hoover adopted pro-labor policies after the 1929 stock market crash that " accounted for close to two-thirds of the drop in the nation's gross domestic product over the two years that followed, causing what might otherwise have been a bad recession to slip into the Great Depression ".

Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known.

Immediately after getting his degree, Hoover was hired by the Justice Department to work in the War Emergency Division.

This program remained in place until it was revealed to the public in 1971, after the theft of many internal documents stolen from an office in Media, Pennsylvania, and was the cause of some of the harshest criticism of Hoover and the FBI.

COINTELPRO was first used to disrupt the Communist Party, where Hoover went after targets that ranged from suspected everyday spies to larger celebrity figures such as Charlie Chaplin who were seen as spreading Communist Party propaganda, and later organizations such as the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr .' s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and others.

The FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC is named after Hoover.

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.

* In Schaumburg, Illinois, a grade school was named after Hoover.

In 1994, after personal information about Hoover was released, the school's name was changed to reflect Herbert Hoover instead of J. Edgar Hoover.

" In the 1937 season, after graduating Hoover High in the winter, Williams finally broke into the line-up on June 22, when he hit an inside-the-park home run to help the Padres win 3-2.

* Long Cane: This " traditional " white cane, also known as a " Hoover " cane, after Dr. Richard Hoover, is designed primarily as a mobility tool used to detect objects in the path of a user.

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.

In his acceptance speech a week after the convention ended, Secretary Hoover said: " We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of this land ... We shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this land.

Some Dillinger historians have remarked that this was simply an excuse for the Bureau to want to get involved in the case after Hoover had calculated the chance of success if they became involved.

On August 18, 1970, four days after the initial warrant was issued, the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover made Angela Davis the third woman and the 309th person to appear on the FBI ’ s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.