Winston Churchill gave a speech in Manchester, railing against protectionist trade policy. He was only four years into his ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered remarks at the Economic Club of Chicago Wednesday on a variety of topics, ...

Garner described the office as not being “worth a bucket of warm spit”, yet the actual quote, according to Garner’s biographer ... With the onset of the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover’s ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Photo gallery from Robert C. Byrd’s 8-7 win over Herbert Hoover in the McDonald’s Classic. Kasen Baun and Justin Duvall combined to hold the Patriots to four hits as the ...

Painter compared Trump to Herbert Hoover and Benito Mussolini: RICHARD PAINTER: The big picture here is that a trade war could easily precipitate an economic crisis, a recession, or even a ...

Eight decades ago, Herbert Hoover, by then a private citizen, twice put forward his own such ideas. His proposals were informed by deep engineering knowledge and a heartfelt humanitarian concern ...

Making matters worse, President Herbert Hoover ramped up government spending by 42% from 19230 to 1932 for a series of programs including work schemes. Enter President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...

Al Smith – in whose honor a famous annual Catholic Archdiocese ... Smith lost to Republican President Herbert Hoover "catastrophically," Kennedy said – as Smith had only won Massachusetts ...

He could be dynamic with small groups but reserved in public. “There’s no theater to Herbert Hoover,” said David Hamilton, a history professor at the University of Kentucky. Trying to keep ...

Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs.President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930 ...