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.

When World War I began in August 1914, Hoover helped organize the return of 120, 000 Americans from Europe.

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 ).

When asked if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, Hoover retorted, " Twenty million people are starving.

When Calvin Coolidge announced in 1928 that he would not seek a full term of office in the 1928 Presidential Election, Hoover became the leading Republican candidate, despite the fact Coolidge was lukewarm on Hoover, often deriding his ambitious and popular Commerce Secretary as " Wonder Boy ".

When Hoover took over the Bureau of Investigation, it had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents.

When the city was incorporated in 1891, Hoover became the first mayor.

When President Calvin Coolidge was later looking for a new territorial governor, Work and Hoover, who by then were both members of the Presidential Cabinet, recommended Parks.

When we see Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover posing with a strip of microfilm, we know we're watching a newsreel.

When the motion picture industry sought someone to establish a self-regulatory process and to help the industry fend off official censorship, three candidates were identified: Herbert Hoover, Johnson and Will Hays.

When Hoover died, Tolson inherited his estate of $ 551, 000 and moved into his house ; he accepted the U. S. flag draped on Hoover's coffin.

When Coolidge declined to run again in the 1928 election, the Republican Party nominated engineer and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who was elected by a wide margin over Al Smith, the first Catholic nominee.

When Herbert Hoover assumed the Presidency in 1929, he brought his longtime aide George Akerson to Washington with him as his private secretary.

When told of the shootings, President Hoover ordered the army to evict the Bonus Army from Washington.

When Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover, found out about Yardley and the Cipher Bureau, he was furious and withdrew funding, summing up his argument with " Gentlemen do not read each other's mail ".

When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover would not release the file on Welles, Brewster threatened to initiate a Senatorial investigation into the incident.

When the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, William E. Borah of Idaho, added his strong support for Cardozo, however, Hoover finally bowed to the pressure.

When completed, the dam was the second-tallest in the United States after Hoover, and was considered one of the greatest engineering feats of all time.

When the war ended in 1945, Hoover started producing cleaners again and unveiled the model 27 for post-war America to enjoy.

When Republican Herbert Hoover was elected President of the U. S., Goldsborough decided to take this opportunity to again try for the same senate seat in Maryland.

When Japan and the USA go to war in 1932 after Japan is caught smuggling weapons to the occupied Canadian province of British Columbia by the USS Remembrance, and Japanese bombers attack Los Angeles, Blackford is easily turned out of office by the Democratic ticket of Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.

When Socialist Al Smith is elected over Hoover in 1936, the Freedom Party's shouts start to be heeded.

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When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

When Darnley died in 1927 his widow presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club and that was the key event in establishing the urn as the physical embodiment of the legendary ashes.

When the body died, parts of its soul known as ka ( body double ) and the ba ( personality ) would go to the Kingdom of the Dead.

When Mannerism matured after 1520 ( The year Raphael died ), all the representational problems had been solved.

When Faustina died in 141, Antoninus was greatly distressed.

When Arminius died before he could satisfy Holland's State General's request for a 14-page paper outlining his views, the Remonstrants replied in his stead crafting the Five articles of Remonstrance.

When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.

When King Æthelwulf died in 858, Wessex was ruled by three of Alfred's brothers in succession, Æthelbald, Æthelbert and Æthelred.

When his brother and his infant son died, Andrew ascended the throne and started to grant royal domains to his partisans.

When the Emperor Henry I died on 11 July 1216, Andrew was planning to acquire the imperial throne, but the barons of the Latin Empire proclaimed his father-in-law, Peter of Courtenay their emperor.

When Valdemar died in 1182, his son succeeded him as Canute VI, and Absalon served as Canute VI's counsellor.

When Kerbogha was defeated, Adhemar organized a council in an attempt to settle the leadership disputes, but he died on 1 August 1098, probably of typhus.

When his eldest daughters died of consumption in 1825, Maria on 6 May and Elizabeth on 15 June, Charlotte and Emily were immediately brought home.

When the apostles died, they were replaced by their writings.

When Diabelli died in 1858, Spina continued to run the firm, and published much music by Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss.

When dictator Franco died in 1975, his successor Juan Carlos I played his part as the living symbol of the transition of Spain to a democratic constitutional monarchy.

When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court.

When Theophano died in 991, Adelaide was restored to the regency of her grandson.

When the peace treaty was signed in February, 1828, Abbas Mirza sought to restore order in the province of Khorasan, which was nominally under Persian supremacy, and while engaged in the task died at Mashhad in 1833.

When Afzal Khan died at the end of the year, Azam Khan became the new ruler, with Abdur Rahman as his governor in the northern province.

When Artemis and Apollo heard this impiety, Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, and Artemis shot her daughters, who died instantly without a sound.

When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.

When he died in August 1945 he left the remainder to the National Trust.

When Stalin died of a stroke on 5 March 1953, Olga Ivinskaya was imprisoned in the Gulag, and Pasternak was in Moscow.