Report

By: Herbert Hoover

Date: 1924

Source: Hoover, Herbert. Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1924. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924, 10–16, 18–19, 22–24. Excerpted in Shannon, David A. "The Government Administrator as Efficiency Expert," in Progressivism and Postwar Disillusionment: 1898–1928. New York: McGraw Hill, 1966, 320–29.

About the Author: Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) was born in West Branch, Iowa. An engineer and successful businessman, he entered public life as a relief administrator during World War I. Rejecting Democratic and Republican entreaties to run for president in 1920, he served instead as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge (1921–1928). When Coolidge chose not to run for reelection, this time Hoover accepted the Republican nomination and became...