The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, monitoring radio reports of a political disaster unfolding in Herbert Hoover's ...

The 31st President of the United States Herbert Hoover. Central Press/Getty Images ... to do with setting tariffs," Irwin said. On the campaign trail, Trump said he could enact tariffs without ...

Both Case and WRU students held straw votes in October 1932. Case went for Herbert Hoover (R), with 263 votes to Franklin D. Roosevelt's (D) 105, Norman M. Thomas' (Socialist) 82, and William Z.

“There’s no theater to Herbert Hoover," said David Hamilton, a history professor at the University of Kentucky. Trying to keep his campaign promise to protect farmers, Hoover pushed Congress ...

Running on a progressive platform, Herbert C. Hoover was enormously popular. His economic acuity was especially respected as he had established his capable good judgment during his tenure as secretary ...

In any election year, voters will be hit with an avalanche of campaign slogans meant to prop up the bona fides of the candidates. Let's revisit some slogans from elections past that helped the ...

Died: October 20, 1964 . Despite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed.

In the spring of 1930, more than 1,000 economists across the United States wrote a letter urging President Herbert Hoover to veto a tariff bill under consideration by the Senate. The bill “would ...

The time-honored tactics of campaigning are all represented, from celebrity endorsements (a Charles Lindbergh testimonial in favor of Herbert Hoover in 1929) to fear-mongering (fire, pistols ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act ... Trying to keep his campaign promise to protect farmers, Hoover pushed Congress for higher agricultural tariffs.

Then he argued that the U.S. ended tariffs, despite a tariff act from President Herbert Hoover at the time. “In 1929, it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression, and it would ...

ELKVIEW, W.Va. — Independence had a prime opportunity to pull even or ahead during the top of the fifth inning in Wednesday’s matchup at Herbert Hoover. After the Patriots failed to do so ...