Herbert Clark Hoover

100 Years Ago Rolling out the welcome mat In the Times social column: "Mr. Henry J. Bender has returned to his home on Rolling Road after visiting friends in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Davis have returned to their home on Rolling Road after...

President Obama is asking Congress for fast-track authority to shrink the federal government, creating an election-year talking point even if House Republicans reject his request. Obama's plan — to do away with the Department of Commerce and...

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...

Dreyfuss’ efforts should be applauded To the editor: I applaud the efforts of Richard Dreyfuss to establish The Dreyfuss Initiative to advocate for the return of civics as a core course in public school education. The need to understand our...

It was the spring of 1932, and veterans of World War I were camped in a Hooverville (a shanty town built by the homeless and named after President Hoover) near Anacostia in a muddy field. They had constructed tents from any piece of debris they could find...

If you are like a lot of office workers these days, getting a raise is no easy achievement. The economy has been tough, spending has been tight and that's left a lot of workers with a pay freeze. But we have some good news. There are signs the economy...

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.,...

I would like to add to Mr. Lightfoot's argument about the Roosevelt administration in prolonging the Great Depression. After President Hoover tried to tax America into being prosperous, FDR decided he would even do bigger tax increases in the name of...

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...

We don't claim to be economists here (that's probably obvious), but occasionally wonder how it is that economic collapse suddenly fills the politicians with great confidence that they can and should spend money like drunken sailors. If you have......

A Ponchatoula man accused of attempted murder of an elderly victim during a recent home invasion was arrested on a total of 39 charges in the last year, including 22 felonies and four burglaries in the month. Ponchatoula Assistant Chief of Police Jim...

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...