Food Administration
Hoover directs voluntary conservation and federal controls over wartime food distribution.
Role range: 1917-1918 – 1917-1919
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Herbert Clark Hoover Biography and Timeline
Follow Herbert Clark Hoover through 11 dated historical records for United States of America.
Herbert Clark Hoover, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
11Distinct records
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1917–1964Years on this page
1917
1923
Commerce Policy
Promotes business cooperation, standardisation and federal support for economic data collection.
Role range: 1921-1928
Radio Regulation
Presses for clearer federal authority over the rapidly expanding radio industry.
Role range: 1921-1928
1929
Black Tuesday
Share prices collapse amid record selling during the Wall Street crash.
Role range: 1929-1933
1930
London Naval Treaty
His administration supports the naval limitation agreement signed in London by the United States, Britain, Japan, France and Italy.
Role range: 1929-1933 – 1929-1933
London Naval Treaty
Supports the treaty extending naval limitation to cruisers, destroyers and submarines.
Role range: 1929-1933 – 1929-1933
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Hoover signs legislation raising duties on thousands of imported products.
Role range: 1929-1933
Banking Panics
A wave of bank failures intensifies contraction, deflation and public demand for currency.
Role range: 1929-1933
1932
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins lending to banks, railroads and other institutions.
Role range: 1929-1933
Banking Act of 1932
The Act broadens eligible collateral and expands Federal Reserve emergency lending powers.
Role range: 1929-1933
1964
Death of Herbert Clark Hoover
Death of Herbert Hoover
Role range: 1929-1933
Records, sources and methodology
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