Herbert Clark Hoover

Rolling Road lived up to its name in the early 1900s

2011-12-04 00:00:00

100 Years Ago Rolling out the welcome mat In the Times social column: "Mr. Henry J. Bender has returned to his home on Rolling Road after visiting friends in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Davis have returned to their home on Rolling Road after...

Derring-do: More from 101-year-old shipbuilder

2012-05-18 16:54:00

Several details from a lengthy interview with Newport News retiree and former shipyard designer Russell Derring didn't make it into a lengthy May 10 profile. Derring, 101, started his shipbuilding career in 1929, and as an apprentice installed pipes on...

Rocklin Company to Bring Jobs Back to California

2012-03-07 15:32:00

Gutter guard manufacturer Gutterglove, Inc. announced Wednesday that it plans to bring jobs back to California from China. Due to rising production costs, Gutterglove founder Robert Lenney opted to do business with a Chinese production company. Lenney...

Tensions grow at Occupy L.A. as deadline nears

2011-11-27 22:43:00

Activists and L.A. officials faced difficult choices over the next phase of the Occupy L.A. movement as a 12:01 Monday deadline approached for the departure of nearly 700 protesters from an encampment on City Hall grounds. On Sunday evening, Mayor...

Letters to the Editor - Sept. 30

2011-09-29 21:00:00

Dreyfuss’ efforts should be applauded To the editor: I applaud the efforts of Richard Dreyfuss to establish The Dreyfuss Initiative to advocate for the return of civics as a core course in public school education. The need to understand our...

Remembering the Hoovervilles of 1932

2011-07-23 21:00:00

It was the spring of 1932, and veterans of World War I were camped in a Hooverville (a shanty town built by the homeless and named after President Hoover) near Anacostia in a muddy field. They had constructed tents from any piece of debris they could find...

PASSINGS: Hubert Schlafly, Alice Ward, Emil 'Jack' Kluever, Philip F. Jones

2011-04-28 00:00:00

Hubert Schlafly Inventor of the teleprompter Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, 91, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter, died April 20 at a hospital in Stamford, Conn., after a brief illness. Schlafly helped start the TelePrompTer Corp.,...

Opinion: CEOs Need A Salary Cap

2011-05-10 14:43:00

If you are like a lot of office workers these days, getting a raise is no easy achievement. The economy has been tough, spending has been tight and that's left a lot of workers with a pay freeze. But we have some good news. There are signs the economy...

Mailbag: Government could learn from Congress of the '90s

2010-08-13 19:44:53

I would like to add to Mr. Lightfoot's argument about the Roosevelt administration in prolonging the Great Depression. After President Hoover tried to tax America into being prosperous, FDR decided he would even do bigger tax increases in the name of...

'Nothing to Fear' by Adam Cohen

2009-01-18 00:00:00

Nothing to Fear FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America Adam Cohen Penguin Press: 372 pp., $29.95 Adam Cohen's cogent chronicle of the pell-mell opening months of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration couldn't be...

Letters to the editor

2009-02-27 00:00:00

-------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Hoover Dam: The caption on a photo of Hoover Dam that ran Feb. 27 said: "Under FDR, the U.S. built huge dams, such as Hoover Dam, to spur economic recovery." Construction of the dam began under President Hoover and was...

Are we depressed yet?

2008-10-07 00:00:00

A grisly banner was held aloft the other day at a demonstration on Wall Street. Its graphic message advised denizens of the street to "Jump!" It was a frightful reminder of perhaps the most widely believed legend about the Great Depression of the 1930s;...

The biggest campus landmark at Stanford is the 285-foot-high Hoover Tower, completed in 1941 as a homage to President Hoover (who managed the football team as an undergrad). Visitors can check out the view from the tower.

2008-10-25 15:55:22

Herbert Hoover 1945 Grand Marshal Former President Hoover was able to express deep and sincere gratitude to the city of Pasadena when he served as Grand Marshal, for Pasadena had given him the highest majority of votes of any city in the 1932 election.

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