On this day in history, Oct. 22, 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden, according ...

Lifting up his voice in Newark, N.J., Nominee Hoover addressed himself to Labor, including “the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner on the job and ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Post-Dispatch Washington correspondent Marquis W. Childs thanks Hoover for sending him a copy of an address the director sent him ...

Snip-snip-snip-snip. Herbert Hoover was cutting up into paragraphs a rough draft of a campaign speech. His scissors made the only sound in the quiet of the Lincoln Study. Over a large table he spread ...