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91. Remember, Herbert Hoover didn't have a problem making unpleasant decisions: he had the courage and toughness to slash spending and raise taxes in the face of the Great Depression.

92. to hoover the carpet.

93. But President Hoover had been saying the same thing for more than a year.

94. Hoover Dam provided the two key ingredients - water and power - that freed the Southwest and southern California to go on a 75-year growth spurt.

95. Investors are preparing to close out the last three trading days of 2008, a year in which Wall Street has logged its worst performance since Herbert Hoover was president.

96. On June 4, 1936, The President Hoover, a luxurious ocean liner, berthed in Hong Kong.

97. Herbert Hoover ( 1874 -- 1964 ), 31 st president of the United States ( 1929 -- 1933 ).

98. They had tuned Hoover out, just as so many Americans have tuned Bush out, either for reasons of partisanship or fatigue.

99. This is a memo to the acting director - now that's L. Patrick Gray, J. Edgar Hoover had died in May - from the special agent in charge of the New York FBI office.

100. One day Hoover hurried to Berlin to protest against the piratical act of a German submarine in sinking a Belgian relief ship.

101. In 1930, Congress passed and President Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.

102. Edgar Hoover, John Lindsay , Richard Nixon and Jack Dempsey.sentencedict.com

103. In the early 1930s, Roosevelt believed in "workfare" and Hoover made loans to bankers.

104. Dead almost 40 years, J. Edgar Hoover returns to the spotlight as the Clint Eastwood biopic "J. Edgar" opens in theaters this week.

105. President Herbert Hoover sniffed about bellboys speculating on share prices.

106. In what became known as the First Battle of Hoover Dam, the Malpais Legate initially had the upper hand.

107. At the Hoover a soaring new bridge, ten years in the making, now spans the Colorado, giving the lie to the notion that America can no longer perform wonders of engineering when it wants to.

108. The ensuing financial crisis meant that not only Germany, but many nations, could not keep up with their war debts; as a result, US President Herbert Hoover introduced a one-year moratorium.

109. At the Hoover Dam, the water level has dropped more than 80 feet.

110. The last book ends in 1972, with the death of J. Edgar Hoover.Also like its predecessors, "Blood's a Rover" features three protagonists tenuously connected to law enforcement.

111. Hoover was inept at politics as he was superb administration.

112. Fear intensified during the interregnum between Herbert Hoover and Franklin D.

113. Truman and every Democrat who ran for the White House for the next half century berated Republican Herbert Hoover for the Depression.

114. When Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in 1932, the Depression had been going on for three years, thousands of banks had failed and unemployment was 25%.

115. This generally was the same belief of the other Republican presidents during the period, Warren Harding and Herbert Hoover.

116. America's Hoover Dam made headlines in the 1930s; today, it is China's $25 billion Three Gorges Dam.

117. "Like the sinking of the Titanic, catastrophes are not democratic, " said Henry I. Miller, a fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

118. One of those opponents is Bill Evers at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California.

119. Of the others, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon all considered sacking him, but, files aside, they had good political reasons for keeping Hoover.

120. A striver who had flourished in America's nascent meritocracy, Hoover put his faith in solutions that were principled, technocratic, and terribly insufficient to the time.