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 ...

(This was the nearest the speech came to mentioning Water Power.) Towards the end came the Hoover speech about Main Street, with special reference to that famed thoroughfare’s co-operation ...

In familiar vein the Hoover speech slurred over the speculative expansion of the Coolidge era to blame “shocks from abroad” as the major cause of U. S. troubles. The President ticked off the ...

Hoover (6-4, 3-3) scored the first three times it touched the ... "I was worried when we came out slow. But we had a nice ...