Noun
31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964)
Source: WordNetI majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. Lou Henry Hoover
I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover. Paul Muni
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing. Barry Eichengreen
Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration. Tim Johnson
Aggressive Introvert: A Study of Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912–1932 (1973). Source: Internet
Boulder Dam is renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover. Source: Internet