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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 consultant
In 1908 Hoover became an independent mining consultant, traveling worldwide until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
At the behest of Lou Henry Hoover, Gilbreth joined the Girl Scouts as a consultant in 1929, later becoming a member of the board of directors, and remained active in the organization for more than twenty years.
At this time, Herbert Hoover was living in New York City but remained integrally involved in the Hoover Institute and Library as a benefactor, fundraiser, and consultant.
* Margaret Hoover, Republican consultant ( often paired with Powers ); appears on Mondays ; related to former President Herbert Hoover
Although Hoover served as series consultant until his death in 1972, he was never seen in the series.
In 2005, a real estate consultant reported that the FBI's scattered workforce ( then house in the Hoover building and 16 other leased sites throughout the D. C. metropolitan area ) and the Hoover building's inefficient interior layout were creating workforce inefficiencies for the FBI.
The consultant also said the Hoover building was inferior in both design and construction in comparison to other office buildings built at the same time.

Hoover and Warner
In 1991, Coppola and Warner Bros. began discussing the project and two others involving the life of J. Edgar Hoover and the children's novel The Secret Garden.
These discussions led to negotiations for Coppola to both produce and direct the Pinocchio project for Warner, as well as Secret Garden and Hoover.
Hoover personally made sure that Warner Bros. would portray the FBI more favorably than other crime dramas of the times.
Warner wrote: " J. Edgar Hoover told me that Youngstown in those days was one of the toughest cities in America, and a gathering place for Sicilian thugs active in the Mafia.
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.

Hoover and .
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.
Farmers called their mule-drawn pickup trucks `` Hoover carts ''.
Smokers reduced to `` the makings '', spoke of the sack tobacco as `` Hoover dust ''.
Sent to Montpelier by Secretary Herbert Hoover, Red Cross Aide Reuben Sleight had been killed, and his pilot, Lt. Franklin Wolfe, badly injured.
Also the department of justice building is located where J. Edgar Hoover presides over the federal bureau of investigation.
* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.
* Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts ( 28 June 1972 ) from the Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives.
Other locations and landmarks that have become part of American folklore include: Independence Hall, Ellis Island, Hoover Dam, Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War Memorial, and the Grand Canyon.
* 1874 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States ( d. 1964 )
* 1927 – First distance public television broadcast ( from Washington, D. C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).
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.
(" I'm Like the Bluebird ") All the money is in the hands of Cora Hoover Hooper, the stylish, ruthless mayoress and her cronies-Comptroller Schub, Treasurer Cooley, and Police Chief Magruder.
J. Edgar Hoover, who had instructed the FBI to keep extensive secret files on him, tried to end his United States residency.
Hoover learned of the trip and negotiated with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to revoke Chaplin's re-entry permit.
Famous concrete structures include the Burj Khalifa ( world's tallest building ), the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal and the Roman Pantheon.
) Turning Points in Ending the Cold War, ( Hoover Institution Press: 2008 ), pp. 111-140, p. 111 ; < http :// www. hoover. org / publications / books / 8237 > 22-23 February, 2012.

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