Washington tends to make history in its corridors, not in its streets. One consequential exception is said to be the Bonus Army fiasco of 1932, during which President Herbert Hoover loosed federal ...

It was 1932. Hoover had dispatched the military to break up a camp of World War I veterans who had massed to demand immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for serving.

Troops on the streets of Washington: Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover and the protesters This wasn't the first time troops have been used in D.C. But you didn't read about the "Bonus Army" in school ...

History Dept. The Last Time the U.S. Army Cleared Demonstrators From Pennsylvania Avenue In 1932, President Hoover set the military on a ragtag band of veterans protesting peacefully.

In 1932, Hoover's attack on the Bonus Army awakened America to his heartlessness. Will Trump's New York rally do the same? Hiltzik: How Herbert Hoover's blunder got FDR elected - Los Angeles Times ...

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Herbert Hoover, ... At the war's outset, the Belgians imported three-quarters of their food, but between an occupying army and a blockading navy, ...

Herbert Hoover, in a suit and hat, stands with three relief workers with sacks of flour, ... President Hoover ordered the U.S. Army to clear the demonstrators out of the national capital.

CEDAR RAPIDS - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964, at the age of 90. Wishing to be buried in his hometown of West Branch, Hoover had selected ...

Hoover then went on to lead the Commission for Relief in Belgium and provided food and aid for nearly 10 million people whose country had been overrun by the German army. Following Hoover's ...