Herbert Hoover is also found in “The Crippling of a Nation” Hoover is the 31th President of the United States. Elected president in 1928, Herbert Hoover, a popular administrative hero of World War I, promised more prosperity and more benefits for big business. Hoover tried to remain true to his word even after the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday in October 1929. He promised that the recession resulting from the Crash of 1929 would be brief and that prosperity was just around the corner. Rather than offer a helping hand, however, Hoover and congressional Republicans passed the even higher Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930, driving the average tariff rate up to almost 60 percent.
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