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When the U.S. did enter the war, Hoover came home to head the U.S. Food Administration. Without resorting to either price controls or rationing, he met the domestic and military food demands of the U.S., increased the export of foodstuffs to hungry allies by 35%. At the height of wartime passions, he urged that German and Austrian women and children be fed by the U.S. too. "I did not believe that stunted bodies and deformed minds in the next generation were the foundation upon which to rebuild civilization," he later explained. At war's end, Hoover headed a massive...
...Hoover's humanitarian work lasted a lifetime. As Secretary of Commerce, he directed the evacuation of 1,500,000 people from the floodlands of the lower Mississippi in 1927, saw that they were housed and fed. Years later, in 1946, Democratic President Harry Truman asked Hoover to examine the relief needs of Asia and Europe in the post-World War II famine. Then 71, Hoover tirelessly trekked 35,000 miles through 25 countries to make his report...
With his remarkable grasp of detail and his organizational genius, Hoover also completed two monumental studies of the federal bureaucracy for Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. His commissions recommended some 645 specific changes in governmental organization and procedure, designed to save some $10 billion annually. About 70% of them were put into effect...
Died. Herbert Hoover, 90, 31st President of the U.S.; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...
...Keating displays an amazing amount of energy. Last week, when he was running some 30 minutes behind schedule, he was faced with the choice of cancelling a speaking engagement or not attending the funeral of Herbert Hoover. Keating missed neither...