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Better Homes in America, 162
Bewick, Moreing, 52, 59, 61, 66, 73, 74, 77–79, 80–84, 88
Bewick, Thomas B., 75
Bissing, Moritz von, 99
Black, Hugo L., 240–41, 262
Bolshevik regime, 141–44, 147–49
Bolshevik Revolution, 86, 117, 118, 127
Bonus Expeditionary Force, 268–69, 383
Boone, Joel E., 165
Bootlegging, 4
Borah, William E., 191, 193, 214, 224, 226, 243, 279, 308
Boxer Rebellion, 2, 63, 66, 68–72, 75
Boys Clubs of America (BCA), 6, 355–56, 391, 392
Branner, John Casper, 26, 30–33, 39, 41, 42, 44, 47, 49–51, 89
Briand, Aristide, 99
Bricker, John W., 347, 387
Britain, Battle of, 322
Britton, Nan, 167
Broken Hill mine, Australia, 80, 81
Brookhart, Smith, 214
Brown, Mollie, 14, 18
Brown, Robert, 25
Brown, Walter Folger, 210, 302
Brown, Walter Lyman, 143
Brussels World’s Fair, 390–91
Bryan, William Jennings, 38, 311
Bulkley, Robert J., 262
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 160, 162, 177–78
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 212
Burma Corporation, 81
Burmese mines, 80–82
Butler, William, 193
Byrd, Richard E., 172
Camp, Walter, 36
Cannibalism, 145–46
Capone, Al, 4, 213, 270, 271
Capper, Arthur, 346
Capper-Volstead Act of 1922, 156
Cardozo, Benjamin, 226–27
CARE, 3, 96
Carnegie, Andrew, 37
Castle, William R. Jr., 210
Castro, Fidel, 396
Cavell, Edith, 102
Challenge to Liberty, The (Hoover), 295–96
Chamberlain, Neville, 318
Chang Yen Mao, 60, 65–69, 72–75, 79
Chiang Kai-shek, 359–61
Chinese mines, 60–62, 64–75
Churchill, Winston, 99–100, 323, 329–30, 341, 348, 351
Clemenceau, Georges, 123, 124, 128
Clements, Kendrick, 154
Cleveland, Grover, 25, 226
Cold War era, 150, 325, 346, 388
Collins, Sam, 33, 34
Columbia University, 56
Comité Nationale, 97
Commission for Polish Relief, 328
Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB), 96–108, 111, 112, 126, 144, 147, 196, 229, 307, 315, 328, 329, 391
Commission on Government Reorganization, 5, 369–70, 385, 386
Committee on Civic Emergency Measures, 158
Communism, 3, 126, 134, 142, 318–19, 323–24, 339, 340, 346, 354, 365–67, 370–72, 375–76, 387–89, 392, 393
Community Chests, 229, 231–32
Congressional elections
1930, 229, 240–41, 251
1934, 302, 304–6
1938, 310, 312–14
1942, 340
1946, 371
1950, 375
1954, 386
Coolgardie, Australia, 57
Coolidge, Calvin, 3, 139, 166–69, 175, 176, 178, 181, 184, 186–89, 192–94, 196–98, 203, 205, 208, 211, 226, 270, 275, 278–79, 400
Coolidge, Calvin Jr., 169
Coolidge, Grace, 168, 169
Cooper, Kent, 347
Corcoran, Tommy, 348
Costigan, Edward P., 262
Cox, James M., 140, 240, 241
Crissinger, D. R., 180
Croly, Herbert, 138
Croxton, Fred, 231
Curtis, Charles, 188, 194, 204, 208, 226, 279
Daugherty, Harry, 159, 165–67
Davis, Chester, 364
Davis, James T., 209
Davis, John W., 241
Davis, Norman, 328, 329
Dawes, Charles G., 163, 188, 197, 204, 256
Dawes Committee, 163
Dawes Plan of 1924, 163
DeMille, Cecil B., 191
Dewey, Thomas E., 303, 330, 333, 346–47, 359, 372, 377, 382
Dilling, Mildred, 349
Dirksen, Everett McKinley, 382, 398
Disarmament, 153–54, 163, 199, 244–45, 247, 248, 323, 324, 354
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 218, 228
Draper, William H., 366
Drought, 239–40, 242
Dulles, John Foster, 384, 386, 389
Dust Bowl, 156, 240
Earlham College, Indiana, 26
Eastern European Railway Administration, 130
Economic recession of 1921–22, 157
Edison, Thomas, 171, 191, 206
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, 191, 199, 212–13, 271
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 3, 5, 268, 375, 379–85, 388–90, 395, 397
Elk Hills, California, 166
Emergency Conference to Save the Jewish People in Europe, 341–42
Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932, 264
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2
Encina Hall, Stanford University, 29–30, 33–35, 40
European Children’s Fund, 3
European Coal Administration, 130
Fall, Albert, 165, 167
Famine Emergency Committee, 364
Farley, James A., 395–96
Farm Bloc, 156, 215
Farm Board, 221, 266
Farm legislation, 156–57, 240, 254, 256, 257, 265–66
Fausold, Martin, 168, 195
Federal Farm Board, 214, 240
Federal Home Loan Bank bill, 257
Federal Power Commission, 211, 236
Federal Radio Commission, 170
Federal Reserve Bank, 180
Federal Reserve Board, 158, 179
Federal Reserve System, 222, 256, 257
Federal Specifications Board, 161
Finland, 127–28, 328–29, 332
Fishing, 23–24, 164, 176–77, 385
Food Administration, 110–17, 120, 123, 126, 144, 229, 307
Ford, Henry, 1, 171, 176, 190, 221, 238, 272
Ford Motor Company, 221
Foreign loans, 163–64
Fourteen Points, 119, 344
Fox, George, 11
Francqui, Émile, 74, 75
Franklin, Benjamin, 2, 87
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 92
Freedom Betrayed (Hoover), 346
French Legion of Honor, 121
Friends Pacific Academy, 20, 22
Gandhi, Mahatma, 362
Garfield, Harry, 111
Garfield, James R., 231
Garner, John Nance, 242, 251, 252, 256, 260–64, 265, 278, 287
General Services Administration, 369
Genghis Khan, 319
George Fox University, 20
George VI, King of England, 318
Gettysburg Address, 373
Gibson, Hugh, 138, 344–45, 384
Gifford, Walter S., 230–31
Gillett, Frederick H., 190
Glass, Carter, 256, 259
Glass-Steagall Act, 253–55, 259, 265
Goff, Guy, 192
Goldwater, Barry, 301, 394, 397–98
Good, James W., 210
Good Neighbor Policy, 4, 206, 324
Goodrich, James P., 144
Goodyear, Anson C., 129
Gore, Thomas, 110
Göring, Hermann, 317–18
Gorky, Maxim, 142, 150
Grain Corporation, 116, 123, 125
Grand Coulee Dam, 174
Grandi, Dino, 247
Grant, U. S., 25
Grass Valley goldfields, 50
Gray, Jennie, 23
Great Depression, 1, 3–5, 98, 163, 164, 181, 200, 210, 217, 219–20, 223, 228–37, 240–43, 246, 247, 252–66, 270, 272, 275, 277, 280, 281, 284, 285, 287, 295–97, 301, 304–6, 312, 313, 331, 377, 382–83
Great Depression, The, 1929–1941 (Hoover), 346
Green, William, 221
Grey, Sir Edward, 92, 99–100, 102
Guggenheim family, 152
Halleck, Charles, 334, 377
Hammel, Oliver, 19
Hanna, Mark, 252
Hard, William, 190
Harding, Florence, 165–66
Harding, Warren G., 139–41, 152–54, 157–60, 162, 164–67, 169, 175, 179, 198, 203, 208, 211, 275, 400
Harrison, Benjamin, 25, 35–36
Haskell, William N., 144–48
Hatfield, Henry D., 280
Hearst, William Randolph, 308
Henry, Charles, 45, 62, 79, 197
Henry, Mrs. Charles, 45, 62, 79
Herter, Christian, 368
Heuss, Theodor, 388
Hicks, Herbert, 39
High Sierras, 39, 41, 49, 51
Highway construction, 235, 243
Hinsdale, Lester, 33, 39, 64
Hirohito, Emperor, 359
Hiroshima, 361
Hitler, Adolf, 316–17, 318, 321, 322, 325, 326, 346
Holocaust, 340, 342
Homberg, Maurice, 106
Homeownership, 162
Hoover, Allan, 18–20, 77–78, 81, 82, 84, 193, 203, 208, 293, 294, 305, 346, 350, 397
Hoover, Benjah, 15, 16
Hoover, Davis, 18
Hoover, Ellen, 16
Hoover, George, 16
Hoover, Herbert
administrative style of, 32
adopted by John Minthorn, 19–21
African Americans and, 183–85, 192, 212
American dream and, 2
American Relief Administration (ARA) headed by, 125, 128
ancestry of, 8
atomic bomb and, 353, 359
Australian mines and, 2, 52–61, 64, 66, 76–77, 80, 81
aviation and, 172
awards and degrees, 121, 315, 392
Belgian relief and, 94–101, 104–9, 112, 121, 123, 391
birth of, 7
birthday of, 1, 373–74, 385
Bonus Expeditionary Force and, 268–69, 383
books by, 24, 74, 88, 134, 295–96, 343–46, 349, 353
Boxer Rebellion and, 69–72
Branner and, 31–33, 39, 41, 42
brother, relationship with, 55–56, 83
burial of, 399
Burmese mines and, 80–82
cabinet of, 209–10
character and personality of, 10–11, 13–14, 17–18, 22, 27, 33–34, 41, 44, 61, 83–84, 169, 272, 289–91, 384, 400–2
childhood and teenage years of, 9–27
children of, 77–78
Chinese mines and, 2, 60–62, 64–75
Churchill and, 99–100
college sports and, 35–37
as commerce secretary, 2, 141, 147, 151, 153–64, 168, 170–76, 186, 187, 189, 192, 198, 213, 260, 265, 318, 400
Communism and, 3, 142, 323–24, 387, 389, 392
congressional election of 1938 and, 313–14
congressional election of 1950 and, 375
congressional election of 1954 and, 386
Coolidge and, 168–69, 189, 192–93
death of, 351, 398
death of father of, 15
death of mother of, 17
death of wife of, 348–51
disarmament and, 153, 163, 199, 244–45, 247, 248, 323, 324
domestic policies as president, 4, 210–17, 220–22
drought and, 239–40, 242
education of, 2, 10, 14, 19, 23, 25–48
educational standards and, 391
Eisenhower and, 381–85, 388–90
English courses and, 29, 41, 46–47
eyesight of, 32
farmers and, 156–57, 196–97, 199–201, 208, 213–14, 254, 256, 257, 265–66, 394
finances of, 2, 18, 24, 27, 28, 31, 33, 38, 51, 52, 57–61, 73–75, 79, 81, 82, 85, 90, 91, 133, 152, 160, 209, 293, 294
fishing and, 23–24, 164, 176, 197, 206, 294, 385
flukes in life of, 42, 46
as Food Administration head, 110–17, 120, 201
foreign affairs and, 6, 162–63, 205–6, 208, 244–49, 322–24, 365–70, 375–77, 387–88, 392–93, 396
French relief and, 103, 106, 107
friendships of, 40, 41–42, 48
Goldwater and, 397–98
Göring, meeting with, 317–18
government reorganization and, 5, 369–70, 373, 385–86
Great Depression and, 1, 3–5, 98, 163, 181, 210, 217, 223, 228–37, 240, 242, 243, 247, 252–66, 272, 275, 277, 280, 281, 284, 285, 297, 301, 304, 306, 313, 331, 382–83
as Great Engineer, 77
Harding and, 140, 141, 153–54, 157, 160, 162, 164–65
health of, 7, 9, 32, 41, 60, 81, 390
Hitler, meeting with, 316–17, 318
humanitarian work of, 3, 5, 38, 81, 87, 94–101, 103–9, 112, 121, 123–33, 141–49, 260, 360–68, 391, 400
idealism of, 34, 47, 87, 120
inauguration of, 208, 213
interregnum and, 286–88, 306
Jewish population in Europe and, 341–42
jobs out of college and, 49–52
journey to Australia and, 52–54
Kennedy and, 396–97
labor issues and, 135, 199, 212, 254, 363, 371–72
as laboratory assistant, 31, 32
as lame duck president, 286–88
Landon and, 310–11, 330, 339
languages and, 38
Latin America, trips to, 205–6, 363–64
League of Nations and, 135–36, 140
legal system and, 213
Lodge and, 104, 125, 135–36
in London, 75–76, 78
Lou, relationship with, 42–45, 44, 55, 61–62, 83, 84, 89
memory of, 38
meteoric rise of, 58–59
as mining engineer, 2, 52–62, 64–77, 80–83, 276
Mississippi Flood and, 3, 181–84, 192, 328
Native Americans and, 212
natural resources and, 176–77
nervous breakdown of, 79
New Deal and, 295, 296, 298, 300, 302–5, 308, 309, 312–13, 322, 330, 332, 372
newspapers and, 133–34
nicknames of, 7, 57
Nixon and, 382, 394, 397
as office boy, 22–25, 51
orphaned, 2, 17–18
parents of, 8–9
Pearl Harbor and, 337–39
philanthropy of, 64, 150–51
physical appearance of, 40–41, 52
post–World War I European trip of, 315–18
post–World War II overseas trips of, 361–62, 365–66
presidency of, 3–4, 163, 208–89, 400
presidential election of 1920 and, 137–40, 307
presidential election of 1928 and, 5, 187–204, 273, 292, 308
presidential election of 1932 and, 5, 251, 263, 265, 270–85, 289, 292, 297, 300, 301, 306, 308–10, 313, 331, 333, 348, 358
presidential election of 1936 and, 302, 304, 305, 307–11, 332, 333
presidential election of 1940 and, 310, 327, 330–36, 338
presidential
election of 1944 and, 347–48
presidential election of 1948 and, 372–73, 375
presidential election of 1952 and, 379–83
presidential election of 1956 and, 388–89
presidential election of 1960 and, 394–96
presidential election of 1964 and, 397–98
Prohibition and, 4, 191, 199–202, 208, 212–13, 255, 271, 281
radio and, 2, 170–71, 273, 279, 283, 284
reading by, 23, 68, 76
religion and, 11–13, 21, 45, 62, 198, 201, 300
Republican party reorganization and, 310–11
reputation of, 1, 3–4, 83, 207, 232, 260, 276, 278, 285–86, 301, 308, 316, 358, 361, 364, 366, 372–74, 380–81, 388
Roosevelt, Franklin and, 202–3, 273, 276, 287–89, 297–300, 306–7, 314, 327–29, 336–37, 339, 346, 352, 357, 358, 360
Russian mines and, 85–87
Russian relief and, 141, 145, 147–49
sister, relationship with, 55–56, 64
sleep and, 31
speech writing by, 197, 209, 279, 283, 390
speeches by, 5, 6, 134, 198, 271–72, 274, 275–77, 279, 281–84, 298, 306, 308, 313, 314, 320, 330, 333–35, 339, 340, 347, 348, 354, 356, 362, 364, 372–78, 380, 382, 388–91, 393, 394
sports and, 14, 35–37
stamina of, 31, 46, 79–80
on Stanford board of trustees, 90
at Stanford University, 28–48
State of the Union addresses of, 236, 252–53
student politics and, 33–35, 39–40, 45–46
summer employment of, 32–33, 38–39, 41, 45, 46, 49, 51
Supreme Court appointments of, 223–27
Taft and, 371, 372, 379, 381, 389
tariff issue and, 201, 215–16, 281, 290
tax policy and, 155, 211, 233–34, 254, 261
traffic issues and, 172–73
Truman and, 357–67, 369–71, 373, 377–78, 384
tutors of, 28
United Nations Charter and, 353–54
Versailles Treaty and, 123, 124, 135–37, 139, 141, 323, 324, 344, 345, 352, 354
veterans issues and, 238, 242, 254, 267–69, 335, 383
Wallace and, 155–57
war debt moratorium and, 245–47
water projects and, 173–76, 235–36, 240, 243, 266
wedding of, 62
Willkie and, 334–36
Wilson and, 104–5, 107–10, 117–19, 136, 137
women’s suffrage and, 199
work ethic of, 29
writings of, 5, 6, 24, 50, 74, 87–90, 134, 295–96, 298, 300, 323, 327, 339, 340, 343–46, 349, 351, 353, 378, 390, 400
Hoover, Herbert Jr., 77–79, 81, 82, 84, 120, 170, 203, 208, 292, 293, 305, 346, 350, 389
Hoover, Huldah Minthorn, 8–10, 13, 14–18
Hoover, J. Edgar, 167
Hoover, Jesse, 7–10, 14–17, 25, 41, 400