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Born into a poor Quaker family in Iowa and orphaned as a child, Hoover made himself into a success. In fact, by the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he was a multimillionaire.
4 de nov. de 2018 · Herbert Hoover Many of the values that steered Herbert Hoover throughout his long career as a statesman and public servant came from the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. The restored Friends Meetinghouse, where the future president and his family worshipped, represents the values of the community that shaped Herbert Hoover’s early years in West Branch.
27 de abr. de 2022 · Herbert Hoover’s vision for healthy children – Part 2: The Children’s Charter. April 27, 2022 by Spencer Howard, posted in Herbert Hoover, Humanitarian, Presidency. by Spencer Howard. When Herbert Hoover became President in 1929, one of his early initiatives was to call for a national conference on child health.
His parents had died when he was still a child and he, his brother and sister were brought up by relations. A member of the first graduate class of Stanford University, Hoover was determined to make a success of the opportunity that had been offered to him. Hoover landed in the port of Albany in May 1897 and travelled to Coolgardie by train.
Overview. Upon accepting the Republican nomination for President in 1928, Herbert Hoover predicted that "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us." Hoover won the presidency that year, but his time in office belied his optimistic assertion.
21 de feb. de 2018 · In 1928, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover took action for the civil rights of African Americans that was both momentous and ultimately trivial – he desegregated the Commerce Department. As his assistant, George Akerson pointed out, the official policy of the Coolidge Administration was that segregation was prohibited in Federal employment.
Publisher's summary. With the analysis of the best scholars on this era, 29 essays demonstrate how academics then and now have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. * This is the first historiographical treatment ...
