In late September 1930, dispatches from Washington, D.C., revealed that Herbert Hoover Jr., the son and namesake of the president of the United States, was planning to convalesce through the ...

President & Mrs. Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr. weekended at the Rapidan camp, for the first time this year taking along no guests, no work. ¶ To reduce the influx of alien labor and ...

Unlike Jimmy Roosevelt, son of another U. S. President, who lives only 20 miles away, Herbert Hoover Jr., has no interest whatever in politics. More Must-Reads from TIME.

Grandson of Hoover Company’s founder, Herbert Hoover Jr. joined the family firm at a young age, working on the assembly line in summers between school. As he gradually moved up through the company, ...

Herbert Hoover Jr., 79, the president of the vacuum cleaner company founded by his father, died Monday. He took over Hoover Co. in the 1950s and built it into an international leader in electric ...

Nearly a century ago, the United States was in the throes of the Great Depression. With the stock market crash in October 1929, followed by a downward spiral in the ...

Behind that effort was Iowa native Herbert Hoover, who would go on to become America's 31st president. The exhibit, 'The Making of the Great Humanitarian: Herbert Hoover and WWI,' focuses on ...

HERBERT HOOVER IN THE WHITE HOUSE: The Ordeal of the Presidency. By Charles Rappleye. 469 pages. $32.50.