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6 days ago · Introduction. Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) was elected president in 1928 while the country was still experiencing the economic boom of the 1920s. A year after his election, the stock market crashed. A full-scale economic depression followed. The Hoover administration’s efforts to deal with the economic crisis and its effects had little ...
6 days ago · On July 28, units of the U.S. Army under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur drove them out of their shanties using tanks and tear gas. The following day Hoover issued the following press statement explaining his actions. —John E. Moser. Source: Herbert Hoover, “The President’s News Conference,” July 29, 1932.
6 days ago · The fall in the stock market and the resulting loss of wealth was not the sole cause of the Depression. Economists still debate what broader effect the stock market crash had on the American economy and why the Great Depression was so severe and so prolonged. Two factors that postdate the stock market crash and are part of the current debate ...
1 day ago · Recorded October 1931. Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover ...
5 days ago · In tackling the former, Elmer rejects explanations that suggest the failure of Charles I and his spiritual, political and judicial advisers to promote witch-hunting was a result of their rejection of witchcraft belief per se. Instead, he makes a distinction between the idea of witchcraft and the practice of witch-hunting, emphasising that an ...
5 days ago · It was held in Washington, under the Chairmanship of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. Conducted outside the auspice of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations—the United States, Japan, China, France, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal [51] Russia and Germany ...
6 days ago · Charles Evans Hughes Chair of Government and Jurisprudence Established by the University in 1955 with funds from a bequest made by Hughes, former chief justice of the United States, and supplemented by gifts from his children and others.
