Letter, Herbert Hoover to Frederick S. Peck, September 12, 1929

This typed letter, dated September 12, 1929, is written from Herbert Hoover to Frederick S. Peck to express Hoover\u27s appreciation of the statement Peck made the previous day during their call and how he feels that things are now on the way to continued Republican success in Rhode Island. The letter is typed on White House letterhead.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-original-manuscripts/1160/thumbnail.jp

Herbert Hoover to Edwin Ladd on arrest of Powers Elevator Agent, 1917

In 1917, North Dakota Attorney General William Langer called for the arrest of a Powers Elevator Agent for complying with a United States Food Administrations guideline that forbid the storage of wheat for more than thirty days. In this letter dated September 7, 1917, Herbert Hoover, Director of the Food Administration, wrote to Dr. Edwin Ladd, an administrator of North Dakota\u27s food laws, to ask Ladd to intercede with Governor Lynn Frazer and the Attorney General to stop the prosecution. Hoover quoted extensively from a letter he recently sent to Representative George Young regarding the situation. Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States and served one term from 1929 until 1933.https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1061/thumbnail.jp

Special Rules on Feeding Stuff, US Food Administration, 1918

United States Food Administrator Herbert Hoover distributed this memo in February 1918 highlighting new rules on the production, storing, and distribution of feed. The US Food Administration was responsible for the domestic food market during the First World War. Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States and served one term from 1929 until 1933.https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1041/thumbnail.jp