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Abbot, Willis J., 204
Adams, Charles Francis, 210
Adelante Villa, Palo Alto, 28
African Americans, 183–85, 192, 212
Agnew, John, 84–85
Agricultural Credits Act of 1923, 156
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, 215
Akerson, George, 209
Albert, King of Belgium, 99, 121, 315
American Child Health Association, 212
American Citizens’ Committee, 93–94
American Civil War, 21, 25, 128, 201, 237
American Federation of Labor, 217, 221, 225
American Historical Review, 90
American Individualism (Hoover), 134, 296
American Liberty League, 304
American Magazine, 295
American Relief Administration (ARA), 3, 99, 124–28, 130–32, 143–49, 155, 196, 229, 307, 390
American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, 171
American Women’s Committee, 93
Americans for Constitutional Action, 394
America’s First Crusade (Hoover), 343–44, 345
Anderson, Clinton, 365
Anderson, Sherwood, 207
Anti-Comintern Pact, 319
Army Corps of Engineers, 182
Arthur, Chester, 25
Atlantic Charter, 352
Australian mines, 2, 52–61, 64, 66, 76–77, 80, 81
Baker, George Barr, 139
Baker, Ray Stannard, 138
Bank failures, 256–59, 264, 267, 281, 287–88
Bank of England, 180
Barkley, Alben, 334
Bates, Lindon W., 103–4
Bates, Sanford, 211
Bauer, George (Georgius Agricola), 88, 89
Bawdin mine, Burma, 81–82
Bay of Pigs, 396
Belgium, 3, 81, 94–101, 104–9, 112, 121, 123, 147, 315, 391
Benedict XV, Pope, 106
Benson, Ezra Taft, 386
Best, Gary Dean, 367
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, 99, 101
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
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
Britain, Battle of, 322
Britton, Nan, 167
Broken Hill mine, Australia, 80, 81
Brookhart, Smith, 214
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
Capper, Arthur, 346
Capper-Volstead Act of 1922, 156
Cardozo, Benjamin, 226–27
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
Churchill, Winston, 99–100, 323, 329–30, 341, 348, 351
Clemenceau, Georges, 123, 124, 128
Clements, Kendrick, 154
Cold War era, 150, 325, 346, 388
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
Congressional elections
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
Cooper, Kent, 347
Corcoran, Tommy, 348
Costigan, Edward P., 262
Crissinger, D. R., 180
Croly, Herbert, 138
Croxton, Fred, 231
Curtis, Charles, 188, 194, 204, 208, 226, 279
Davis, Chester, 364
Davis, James T., 209
Davis, John W., 241
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
Dulles, John Foster, 384, 386, 389
Earlham College, Indiana, 26
Eastern European Railway Administration, 130
Economic recession of 1921–22, 157
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
Famine Emergency Committee, 364
Farley, James A., 395–96
Farm legislation, 156–57, 240, 254, 256, 257, 265–66
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
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
Fox, George, 11
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-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
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
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
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
Highway construction, 235, 243
Hirohito, Emperor, 359
Hiroshima, 361
Hitler, Adolf, 316–17, 318, 321, 322, 325, 326, 346
Homberg, Maurice, 106
Homeownership, 162
Hoover, Allan, 18–20, 77–78, 81, 82, 84, 193, 203, 208, 293, 294, 305, 346, 350, 397
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
languages and, 38
Latin America, trips to, 205–6, 363–64
League of Nations and, 135–36, 140
legal system and, 213
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
parents of, 8–9
Pearl Harbor and, 337–39
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
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
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
Hoover, Lou Henry, 2, 73, 79, 87, 128–29, 171, 194, 197, 203, 204, 278, 293–94, 399
Boxer Rebellion and, 69–71
in Burma, 81
children of, 77–78
death of, 348–51
as First Lady, 63, 68, 208, 349, 351
funeral and burial of, 350–51
house designed by, 133
personality of, 42–44, 63, 349
philanthropy of, 64
physical appearance of, 43, 349
relationship with Hoover, 42–45, 44, 55, 61–62, 83, 84, 89
wedding of, 62
Hoover, Merlin, 18
Hoover, Mildred Brooke, 55, 79
Hoover, Tad, 7, 9, 10, 14–18, 23, 50, 52, 55–56, 58–60, 64, 75, 79, 83, 87, 292, 389
Hoover, Wally, 18
Hoover Commission, 5, 369–70, 385, 386
Hoover Dam, 155, 174, 175, 222, 364
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, 345, 374, 400
Hoover Presidential Library, 63, 350
Hopper, Edward, 75
Houston, David, 109
Hughes, Charles Evans, 166, 223–24, 335
Human Events journal, 352
Hungarian Revolution, 389
Hungary, 126–27
Hunt, Edward Eyre, 99
Hurley, Patrick J., 210, 227, 235, 268, 269, 280–81
Hyde, Arthur M., 210, 235, 239
Influenza pandemic, 120
Insull, Samuel, 221
International cartels, 177–78
Invisible hand, 157
Irtysh, Siberia, 86
Ivan the Terrible, 319
Izaak Walton League, 176
Jackson, Andrew, 305
Janin, Louis, 50–52
Japan, 117–18, 248–50, 290, 361
Jardine, William M., 157
Jefferson, Thomas, 25, 358, 378
Johnson, Hiram, 136, 139, 140, 175, 224, 354
Jordan, David Starr, 26, 28, 29, 37, 87
Joseph, Archduke, 127
Kaiping mines, China, 66, 68, 73
Kalgoorlie, Australia, 57
Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, 248
Kennedy, David, 232
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 397
Kennedy, John Jr., 397
Kennedy, Joseph P., 218, 326, 359, 379, 396
Kennedy, Rose, 397
Kenyon, William S., 158
Kitchener, Herbert, 99
Klein, Julius, 160
Korean War, 370, 375, 376, 387
Ku Klux Klan, 192
Kyshtym, Russia, 86
La Follette, Robert Jr., 224, 256, 262, 275
La Follette, Robert Sr., 136, 191
La Guardia, Fiorello, 256
Labor issues, 135, 199, 212, 254, 264, 363, 371–72
Landon, Alf, 305, 308–11, 330, 333–35, 339, 352, 369, 373, 379
Latin America, 4, 205–6, 323, 363–64
Laval, Pierre, 247–48
League of Nations, 133, 135–36, 140, 199, 248, 249, 250, 315, 318, 341, 344, 346, 353, 354
League to Enforce Peace, 136
Leavitt, Cornelius Van Ness, 64
Leavitt, May Hoover, 7, 15, 16, 18, 23, 50, 52, 55–56, 58, 64
Lee, George L., 151
Lee, Robert E., 25
Lend-lease, 322
Lenin, Vladimir, 141, 143, 148, 319
Leopold II, King of Belgium, 74
Lever bill, 110
Lewis, John L., 282
Lincoln, Abraham, 25, 222, 272, 313, 330, 373
Lindbergh, Charles A., 172, 184, 278
Lindgren, Waldemar, 39, 41, 45, 46, 49, 51
Lippmann, Walter, 138
Litvinov, Maxim, 143
Lloyd George, David, 99, 100, 106, 123
Lodge, Henry Cabot Jr., 104, 109, 125, 135–36, 380, 381, 394
Logan Act of 1799, 103
Lohof, Bruce Alan, 184
London Naval Disarmament Conference of 1930, 219, 244
Loring, W. J., 82
Luce, Clare Booth, 383
Ludlow, Louis, 324
Luther, Martin, 88
Lyons, Eugene, 90
Lytton Commission, 249–50
MacArthur, Douglas, 268–69, 370–71, 380, 384, 385, 396
MacDonald, Ramsay, 244
MacLafferty, James H., 188
Marne, Battle of the, 103
Marshall, George C., 366–68
Mayer, Louis B., 191
McClellan, John, 386
McCone, John, 396
McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 373–74
McNab, John L., 194
McNary-Haugen Bill, 156, 189, 193
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 170–71
Meller-Zakomelsky, Baron, 85, 86
Mellon, Andrew, 153, 155, 157, 178, 193, 203, 209, 211, 219
Meuse-Argonne sector, 119
Miller, Adolph, 179
Miller, Bunny, 349–50
Miller, William, 398
Mills, Ogden L., 190, 210, 274, 279, 280, 302
Minerals Separation, 83
Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, 90
Minthorn, Grandmother, 18, 27, 56
Minthorn, Henry John, 7, 19–22, 26, 27, 29, 276
Mississippi Flood of 1927, 3, 181–84, 192, 328
Mitchell, Billy, 172
Mitchell, Wesley C., 296
Mitchell, William D., 210, 224, 227
Moreing, Charles Algernon, 75, 78, 82
Moreing, Charles Augustus, 53, 58, 59, 73, 74
Morgan, J. P., 274
Morgenthau, Henry, 342
Morgenthau Plan, 365
Morton, Thruston, 395
Moton, Robert R., 183, 212, 272
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 175–76, 238–39, 254
Mussolini, Benito, 247
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 225
Nagasaki, 361
Nansen, Fridtjof, 141
National Association of Manufacturers, 217
National Bureau of Economic Research, 220
National Business Survey Conference, 221–22
National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies, 341
National Credit Corporation, 253
National Parks Association, 176
National Recovery Administration, 115, 302
Native Americans, 8, 16–17, 22, 212
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 370, 375
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 362
New Deal, 4, 233, 234, 253, 278, 295, 296, 298–305, 308–13, 322, 330, 332, 349, 358, 371, 372, 386, 393, 401
New Economic Policy of 1921, 144
New Look, 387
New York Life Insurance Company, 294
New York Stock Exchange, 218, 219, 281
Newberg, Oregon, 19–20, 24, 27, 28, 389
Nicholas II, Czar, 86, 107, 319
Nine-Power Treaty of 1922, 248
Nixon, Richard M., 202, 382, 394–97
Nobel Peace Prize, 121
Nonagression Pact, 326
Norris, George W., 157, 188, 192, 194, 224, 238–39, 243, 290
Norris–La Guardia Act, 4
O’Laughlin, John C., 325, 339, 364
Omsk, Siberia, 86
One World (Willkie), 336
Orlando, Vittorio, 123
Padereski, Ignacy Jan, 38
Page, Walter Hines, 93, 94, 100–1, 104
Palestine, 342–43
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 134
Palo Alto, California, 26, 28, 78, 84, 197, 293, 295, 349, 350
Panama-Pacific International Exhibition of 1915, 91
Panic of 1837, 157
Parker, John J., 224–26
Patman, Wright, 267
Patton, George S., 268
Peace Corps, 396
Pearl Harbor, 325, 336–39, 344
Pearson, Drew, 276
Penney, J. C., 206
Percy, Lord Eustace, 106
Perón, Juan, 361
Pershing, John J., 124, 126, 129
Peter the Great, 319
Pius XII, Pope, 361
Poincaré, Henri, 99
Polo, Marco, 67
Pomerene, Atlee, 226
Presidential elections
1896, 139
1928, 5, 141, 187–204, 273, 274, 292, 308
1932, 5, 197, 211, 251, 263, 265, 270–85, 289, 292, 297, 300, 301, 306, 308–11, 313, 331, 333, 348, 358
1936, 302, 304, 305, 307–11, 331, 332, 333
1940, 310, 327, 329–36, 338, 347
1952, 379–83
1956, 388–89
1964, 397–98
President’s Conference on Unemployment, 157–58
President’s Emergency Committee for Employment (PECE), 229–31
President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief (POUR), 231
Princip, Gavrilo, 92
Principles of Mining (Hoover), 88
Problems of Lasting Peace, The (Hoover and Gibson), 344–46, 353
Prohibition, 4, 14, 110, 191, 195, 199–202, 208, 255, 271, 279, 281
Pulitzer, Joseph, 138
Quakerism (Society of Friends), 8, 11–13, 20, 21
Railroads, 158–59, 235, 236, 239, 242, 254, 255, 256, 264
Ransome, Wolfe, 37
Raskob, John J., 242, 252, 304
Reader’s Digest, 344
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), 253, 255–57, 259, 262–65, 280, 287
Red Cross, 104, 117, 131, 182, 183, 229, 239, 240, 266, 327–29
Red Scare, 134
Renshaw, Patrick, 140
Republican Circles, 333
Republican Federal Associates, 302, 305
Rhondda, Lord, 112
Richey, Lawrence, 209
Rickard, Edgar, 89, 123, 190, 209, 293, 350
Riga, Treaty of, 143
Robinson, Joseph T., 240, 242, 256, 260, 262, 263
Romania, 126–27
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 327, 328, 350, 352, 377
Roosevelt, Elliott, 335
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 4, 5, 115, 138, 157, 175, 197, 202–3, 206, 211, 217, 223, 242, 246–47, 269, 271–81, 283–89, 292, 293, 297–300, 302–4, 314, 320–42, 346–52, 357, 358, 360, 369, 387, 393
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4, 10, 104, 139, 155, 176, 196, 237, 296, 311, 343, 350
Root, Elihu, 191
Rowe, Mrs. A. S., 79
Ruark, Robert C., 381
Russia, 85–87, 117–18, 141, 145, 147–49
Russian Revolution, 86, 107, 118
Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5, 117
St. Lawrence Seaway, 155, 174, 175, 266
Salk, Jonas, 2
Salvation Army, 229
Sanders, Everett, 303
Sanford, Edward Terry, 224
Saturday Evening Post, 295, 343
Sauberzweig, Traugott von, 102
Sawyer, Charles E., 165
Second Hoover Commission, 5, 385–86
Shaw, Arch, 333
Shiloh, Battle of, 21
Shotwell, James T., 220
Shouse, Jouett, 242
Skinner, Robert, 92–93
Smith, Adam, 157
Smith, Alfred E., 195–97, 202–4, 206, 224, 241–42, 248, 273, 304
Smith, J. P., 46–47
Smith, Jesse, 164
Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 215, 216, 240, 277, 280, 281, 290
Snell, Bertrand, 251
Sobel, Robert, 222–23
Sons of Gwalia, Australia, 57–59, 66
Sousa, John Philip, 203
Soviet Union, 3, 99, 121, 122, 141–50
Stagg, Amos Alonzo, 37
Stalin, Joseph, 319, 325, 339, 351, 359, 361, 363
Stanford Cardinal, 35–37
Stanford University, 2, 26–48, 52, 55, 56, 79, 83, 87, 90, 95, 109, 133, 189, 198, 203, 284, 294, 374, 400
Steagall, Henry, 259
Stearns, Justus S., 190
Steel industry, 159–60
Stevenson, Adlai, 381
Stimson, Henry L., 210, 233, 248–50, 295, 346, 351, 358–61
Stock market crash (October 1929), 141, 180–81, 215, 219, 223, 228
Stone, Harlan F., 167
Strategic Air Command, 387
Strikes, 159, 221, 222, 254, 362–63, 371
Strong, Benjamin, 180
Strother, French, 209
Submarine warfare, 97, 107, 322
Sugar Equalization Board, 116, 123
Sullivan, Mark, 150, 301, 335, 378
Sunier, Mrs. Stephen, 14
Supreme Court of the United States, 223–27, 281, 307, 311, 312, 331
Swain, Joseph, 26–28
Taft, Robert A., 111, 326, 331, 333, 336, 371–72, 375, 377, 379–81, 384, 389
Taft, William Howard, 87, 136, 190–91, 196, 213, 333
Taft-Hartley Act, 371
Tarbell, Ida, 138
Tatum, Lawrie, 18
Tax policy, 155, 211, 233–34, 254, 261
Teapot Dome oil swindle, 165–67
Thurmond, J. Strom, 373
Tianjin (Tientsin), China, 62, 64–65, 69–72
Tilson, John Q., 251
Tong Shan, China, 65
Tong Shao-yi, 69
Trueblood, Daisy, 23
Truman, Bess, 378
Truman, Harry S., 3, 5, 175, 326, 353, 357–67, 369–73, 376–78, 380, 381, 384, 385, 387
Truman Presidential Library, 377
Tugwell, Rexford, 278
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 265
Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution, 286
Unemployment, 4, 5, 157–58, 199, 217, 220–22, 228, 230, 234, 254, 261, 262, 264, 266, 313–14, 334
United Nations, 342, 353–54, 387, 388
United Nations International Children’s Fund, 96, 364
U.S. Coal Commission, 159
U.S. Food Administration, 99, 129
University of California, Berkeley, 36, 37
Ural Mountains, 85
Versailles, Treaty of, 123, 135–37, 189, 245, 344, 345, 352, 354
Versailles peace conference (1918), 37, 119, 123, 129, 135, 141, 323, 324
Veterans, 238, 242, 254, 266–68, 335, 383
Vietnam, 387
Volstead Act, 191
Wagner, Robert F., 237, 262, 263
Wagner, Robert F. Jr., 397
Wagner Act of 1935, 371
Walcott, Frederic C., 105
Walker, William, 11
Wallace, Henry A., 295, 369, 373
Wallace, Henry C., 109, 155–57, 175
Walsh, Thomas J., 262
War debt moratorium, 245–47
War Refugee Board, 342
Warren, Earl, 347, 355, 377, 397
Washington Naval Conference of 1921, 154, 244
West Branch, Iowa, 1, 7–9, 12–14, 16, 18–20, 28, 200, 373, 399–400
Wheeler, Burton, 256
White, William Allen, 138, 140, 296, 306–8, 346
Wickersham, George W., 213
Wilbur, Ray Lyman “Rex,” 33, 35, 101, 109, 110, 113, 114, 165, 166, 175, 190, 210, 212, 235, 305, 351, 364
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 99
Willamette Valley, 19–20
Willkie, Wendell, 324–25, 334–36, 339–40, 347, 373, 379
Wilson, Charles, 386
Wilson, Woodrow, 3, 4, 87, 100, 101, 104–5, 107–10, 117–19, 123–28, 134, 136–38, 140, 152, 209, 222, 223, 237, 275, 296, 344, 352
Wood, Leonard, 140
World Bank, 368
World Court, 162–63
World War I, 3, 38, 81, 86, 87, 91–123, 220, 322, 325, 368
World War II, 5, 6, 297, 319–32, 336–43, 346, 351–52, 355, 359–60
World’s Fair of 1893, 33
Wouters, Edmund de, 75
Yalta Conference, 341, 351–252
Years of Adventure (Hoover), 74
Young, Owen D., 231
Young Plan of 1929, 163
Zimmermann, Arthur, 107