On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed a bill making “The Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem of the United States. The tune was once a pub song, now it is performed at most sporting ...

The Smoot-Hawley tariffs were meant to protect farmers, but grew owing to congressional “logrolling”, as representatives ...

and Herbert C. Hoover’s plans for removing the marines from Haiti and Nicaragua. In 1932, Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Construction Act, which provided $2 billion for public works projects ...

Partisans passed through the executive offices to wring Herbert Hoover’s hand a last ... With great satisfaction” President Hoover signed a bill authorizing the Supreme Court to prescribe ...

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.