Eight decades ago, Herbert Hoover, by then a private citizen, twice put forward his own such ideas. His proposals were informed by deep engineering knowledge and a heartfelt humanitarian concern ...

Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.

President Herbert Hoover ... his presidency and after, Hoover was a trailblazer in engineering and humanitarian efforts. Here are five facts about President Hoover's life: Hoover spent the first ...

The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, ...

At its center was an American who in 1928 was elected president of the United States: Herbert Hoover. In the summer of 1914, Hoover had been a highly successful American mining engineer living in ...

During the time in the early 1920s when legislation was being crafted to authorize a dam on the Colorado River, Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce for President Warren Harding.