1. Herbert Hoover
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... to the many. (Himmelberg, 11) The faith of the people in the Republican Party, which most of them had regarded as the custodian of prosperity, and in the Republican President, Herbert Hoover, by 1932 had reached the vanishing point. (Himmelberg, 11) Governmental efforts to end the depression had failed. As the situation grew worse, expectation of strong action in Washington ... rigid conservatives such as the secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, who advised the president to liquidate to let the depression run its course without doing anything. (Himmelberg, 11) President Herbert Hoo...
... the fundamental idea concluded in his work: I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection. . . . The expression used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. Also contained in Darwin's theories was the notion of the "Struggle for Existence." In this ... from Darwin's theories were decidedly secular, not unlike Darwin's theory itself. One of the most influential social and ethical philosophies associated with Darwin's theory was that of the British ...
... Boer army surrendered in the Brandwater Basin between July 31 and August 9. Lord Roberts, having claimed the "annexation- of both Boer republics, turned the command of British forces over to Herbert Lord Kitchener on November 29. The British thought the war was almost won, but British satisfaction proved short-lied. Boer leaders, among them such soldiers and future statesmen as Louis ... ...