Herbert Clark Hoover

The fiscal cliff ... of '32

2012-12-26 00:00:00

Close your eyes in Washington these days and you can almost hear the echoes of 1932. Eighty years ago, just like today, a fiscal crisis almost totally dominated the nation's capital. Then, as now, fiscal conservatives demanded immediate action to fix...

Tensions grow at Occupy L.A. as deadline nears

2011-11-27 22:43:00

Activists and L.A. officials faced difficult choices over the next phase of the Occupy L.A. movement as a 12:01 Monday deadline approached for the departure of nearly 700 protesters from an encampment on City Hall grounds. On Sunday evening, Mayor...

PASSINGS: Hubert Schlafly, Alice Ward, Emil 'Jack' Kluever, Philip F. Jones

2011-04-28 00:00:00

Hubert Schlafly Inventor of the teleprompter Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, 91, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter, died April 20 at a hospital in Stamford, Conn., after a brief illness. Schlafly helped start the TelePrompTer Corp.,...

'My Father's Bonus March' by Adam Langer

2009-11-01 00:00:00

My Father's Bonus March Adam Langer Spiegel & Grau: 244 pp., $26 In June 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, a ragtag collection of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., to demand money the government had promised them. About...

'Nothing to Fear' by Adam Cohen

2009-01-18 00:00:00

Nothing to Fear FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America Adam Cohen Penguin Press: 372 pp., $29.95 Adam Cohen's cogent chronicle of the pell-mell opening months of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration couldn't be...

Historic Long Beach band shell is restored to its former glory

2008-05-11 00:00:00

The Bixby Park Bandshell isn't really a shell, but the name is ingrained in the Long Beach vernacular. The 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival open stage in Long Beach looks nothing like the grand, curving band shells of Boston and Chicago. "There's supposed...

Letters to the editor

2009-02-27 00:00:00

-------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Hoover Dam: The caption on a photo of Hoover Dam that ran Feb. 27 said: "Under FDR, the U.S. built huge dams, such as Hoover Dam, to spur economic recovery." Construction of the dam began under President Hoover and was...

Are we depressed yet?

2008-10-07 00:00:00

A grisly banner was held aloft the other day at a demonstration on Wall Street. Its graphic message advised denizens of the street to "Jump!" It was a frightful reminder of perhaps the most widely believed legend about the Great Depression of the 1930s;...

Gen. Patton's loot

2006-04-04 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN Museum of Art in New York and the Getty Center in Los Angeles are facing charges of complicity in the acquisition of looted art. The objects in question are ancient artworks and artifacts, but loot can come from any time and any place....

Mail Call - July 20

2012-07-20 00:00:00

“This is a message for Skip, the mayor of Boonsboro, and just the town overall, for having a great show Saturday, the Country Current band, the Navy band. They did a great show, and another great job for Boonsboro. Thanks a lot.” —...

Derring-do: More from 101-year-old shipbuilder

2012-05-18 16:54:00

Several details from a lengthy interview with Newport News retiree and former shipyard designer Russell Derring didn't make it into a lengthy May 10 profile. Derring, 101, started his shipbuilding career in 1929, and as an apprentice installed pipes on...

Rocklin Company to Bring Jobs Back to California

2012-03-07 15:32:00

Gutter guard manufacturer Gutterglove, Inc. announced Wednesday that it plans to bring jobs back to California from China. Due to rising production costs, Gutterglove founder Robert Lenney opted to do business with a Chinese production company. Lenney...

Torrents of water laden with sediment released during the valve test gushed out to a concrete spillway below and then churned a mile down the San Gabriel Canyon to the Morris Dam, a facility that President Hoover dedicated in honor of Los Angeles consulting engineer Sam Morris in 1934.

2010-12-15 00:00:00

Herbert Hoover 1945 Grand Marshal Former President Hoover was able to express deep and sincere gratitude to the city of Pasadena when he served as Grand Marshal, for Pasadena had given him the highest majority of votes of any city in the 1932 election.

2001-11-08 15:39:03