HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Monetary Base, National Recovery Administration
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Herbert hoover (1874-1964: orphaned at 9, graduated in geology from the first class at stanford in 1891, became a millionaire in the international mining business, set up volunteer society that fed 10 million europeans during. Wwi: appointed head of the us food administration in wwi, one of the few people to emerge from wwi with his reputation improved, becomes secretary of commerce under harding and. Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing we in america today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. Hoover, his advisors, and business leaders, initially tried to create confidence by sounding confident: I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence. There will be a revival of activity in the spring . There is nothing in the situation to be disturbed about secretary of commerce lamont,
