Herbert Hoover
Noun
Meaning
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)
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Examples
I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.
I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.
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.
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.
Aggressive Introvert: A Study of Herbert Hoover and Public Relations Management, 1912–1932 (1973).
Boulder Dam is renamed in honor of Herbert Hoover.