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Hoover and realized
Hoover realized that he was in a unique position to collect information about the Great War and its aftermath.
The main surge of women voting came in 1928, when the big-city machines realized they needed the support of women to elect Al Smith, while rural dries mobilized women to support Prohibition and vote for Republican Herbert Hoover.
The initial need for a reservoir was realized in 1936 with the completion of Hoover Dam in Black Canyon, marking the first time man held control of the Colorado.

Hoover and job
Boyd tries to get Littell a job with now-Attorney General designate Bobby Kennedy, who emphatically refuses, also having received a report from Hoover of Littell's budding alcoholism and invented mob ties.
It is rumoured that Hoover challenged the popular, four-term incumbent in retaliation for the civil service rules that had cost him his pension office job.
Zeider was born in the small town of Hoover near Logansport in Cass County, Indiana, where his father was a farmer, and grew up in Auburn, Indiana, where his father took a job in a sawmill.
Other subplots include an executive named Mike Hoover ( Wallace Shawn ), another burnout who learns that he is dying from an unknown terminal illness and everyone wanting, including his coke-sniffing best friend Al Kennedy ( Bruce Wagner ) trying to steal his job.

Hoover and was
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.
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.
Eisenhower was also the first outgoing President to come under the protection of the Former Presidents Act ; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed.
J. Edgar Hoover, appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1924, was by far the longest-serving FBI Director, serving until his death in 1972.
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.
Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964 ) was the 31st President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).
Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author.
America was prosperous and optimistic at the time, leading to a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.
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 ).
Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.
His father, Jessie Hoover, was a blacksmith and farm implement store owner who was of German ( Pfautz, Wehmeyer ) and German-Swiss ( Huber, Burkhart ) descent.
Hoover's mother, Hulda Randall ( Minthorn ) Hoover ( 1849 – 84 ), was born in Norwich, Ontario, Canada, of English and Irish descent.
Hoover was made a partner in Bewick, Moreing & Co. on December 18, 1901 and assumed responsibility for various Australian operations and investments.
By now, Hoover was no longer living in Australia, instead he visited the country in 1902, 1903, 1905 and 1907 as an overseas investor.
Hoover was a director of Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation ( CEMC ) when it became a supplier of coolie labor for South African mines.
" 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.
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 ".
It was determined that Hoover had given extremely detailed maps of the area to Stanford University.
" Hoover liked to say that the difference between dictatorship and democracy was simple: dictators organize from the top down, democracies from the bottom up.

Hoover and now
This led Herbert Hoover to appoint two commissions, including one headed by a former US governor of the Philippines William Cameron Forbes, which criticized the exclusion of Haitians from positions of authority in the government and constabulary, now known as the Garde d ' Haïti.
For two and a half years, Hoover attended Friends Pacific Academy ( now George Fox University ), and then worked as an office assistant in his uncle's real estate office, the Oregon Land Company, in Salem, Oregon.
The collection was later renamed the Hoover War Library and is now known as the Hoover Institution.
* 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam ( now known as Hoover Dam ).
** Building of the Boulder Dam ( now known as Hoover Dam ) is started.
During this time he developed what is now the standard method of " long cane " training or the Hoover Method.
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.
Hoover has now re-released an updated version of this later model Constellation in the US ( model # S3341 in Pearl White and # S3345 in stainless steel ).
As it happened, John Henry Hoover lived a few miles south of what is now Zalma, and it was said that he made excellent corn whiskey.
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.
The Minthorns were administrators of the Quaker middle school Friends Pacific Academy, now George Fox University, which Hoover and his brother Tad attended.
She was a friend and defender of Hoover for the remainder of her life, and many of her personal papers are now in the Rose Wilder Lane Collection at the Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa.
Image: Hoover Building 1. jpg | The Hoover Building, now a Tesco supermarket, is on the A40
After Smith lost to Republican candidate Herbert Hoover, Robinson emerged from the campaign a national figure, now known for the impassioned speeches he had made around the country on behalf of Smith and the Democratic platform.
* Hoover Field, Washington, D. C .' s first airport, located where the Pentagon now stands
* Hoover, original name of the music group now known as Hooverphonic
The Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House in Palo Alto's foothills is now the official residence of the President of Stanford University.
One of the brick dorms known now as " The Classics " at San Jose State University is named " Hoover Hall " in her honor.
Subsequently, J. Edgar Hoover announced that " Baby Face " Nelson was now Public Enemy No. 1.
McAvoy worked as a storeman at the Hoover factory in Cambuslang, and was a shop steward for the Amalgamated Engineering Union ; following the succession of trade union mergers, he is now a member of Unite the Union ( Amicus Section ).

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