At its center was an American who in 1928 was elected president of the United States: Herbert Hoover. In the summer of 1914, Hoover had been a highly successful American mining engineer living in ...

WASHINGTON, March 4, 1929 (UP) -- With an extraordinary display of Republican pageantry, Herbert ... 11:15 a.m. Hoover and Coolidge left their motor car, accompanied by Senator George H.

Among them: the Argentinean plot to assassinate Herbert Hoover, the West Branch native ... two fellow Italian anarchists blew up a statue of George Washington in Palermo, Buenos Aires.