HERBERT HOOVER PAPERS FILES OF PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIES, 1915-1933 (bulk, 1929-1933) 242 linear feet, 10 linear inches (555 Manuscript boxes) Herbert Hoover Presidential Library SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The series primarily contains cross references and abstracts of letters referred to various governmental departments and agencies for attention. These provide leads to additional information in other series within Herbert Hoover’s presidential papers and within record groups at the National Archives. The series also contains some correspondence. The materials are arranged alphabetically in name and subject files and chronologically within folders. Note: folder titles starting with the word GROUP contain materials that pertain to a number of different names and topics that fall within the indicated alphabetical sequence. FOLDER LIST Box Contents 416 GROUP: Aac – Abe, 1929-1933 (8 folders) Aasgaard, J. A., 1931-1932 (President, Norwegian Lutheran Church of America) Abbot, C. G., 1930-1931 (Smithsonian) Abbot, Willis, J., 1929-1932 (Christian Science Monitor) Abbott, Charles F., 1929-1933 (American Institute of Steel Construction, 3 folders) Abbott, Grace, 1929-1932 (Labor Department, Children’s Bureau) Abbott, Robert J., 1929-1932 (New Orleans, Pelican Republican Club) 417 GROUP: Abi – Adams, D., 1929-1933 (14 folders) Ackerman, Ernest R., 1929-1931 (New Jersey House) Ackerson, Fred M. – Recommendations, 1929 (Judge, Court of Claims of New York) Adams, Albert J., 1929-1932 (New York City eccentric) Adams, Ben E., 1929-1932 (Columbia, Carolina Free Press editor) Adams, Charles Francis and Frances L., 1929-1932 (Secretary of the Navy) 418 GROUP: Adams, E – Adc, 1929-1933 (15 folders) Adams, J. Duncan, 1929-1931 (US Marshal, South Carolina) Adams, John T., 1929-1931 (Dubuque businessman, chair RNC) Adams, John T., 1929-1932 (Colorado Supreme Court Justice) Adams, Nathan, 1929-1932 (president American Exchange National Bank, Federal Home Loan Bank Board) 419 GROUP: Addams – Agrel, 1928-1933 (12 folders) Addams, Jane, 1929-1932 (social work) Adjusted Compensation Service Certificates, 1929-1933 (veterans bonus, 2 folders) Adkins, Charles, 1929-1932 (Illinois House) Agren, Andrew, 1932 (North Dakota, Smoot-Hawley) Agress, Max, 1929-1932 (Texas Potash Corporation, economics) 420 GROUP: Agriv – Ala, 1929-1933 (12 folders) Agriculture, 1929-1933 Ainey, William D. B., 1929-1931 (judge, Chair Public Service Commission of Pennsylvania) Air Mail, 1929-1933 Airplanes, 1929-1932 Airports, 1929-1932 Akerman, Walter, 1929-1930 (Gerogia US Marshall endorsements) Akerson, George, 1929-1932 (HH secretary, Paramount Publix Corporation) Akin, T. W., 1929 (Anoka, Minnesota, seeks job) 421 GROUP: Alabas – Aldric, 1929-1933 (15 folders) Alabama, 1929-1932 Alaska Territory, 1929-1932 Albrecht, Paul F., Mr. and Mrs., 1932 (Chicago, Hoover supporters, 1932 campaign) Albright, Horace M., 1929-1932 (National Park Service) Albus, John - Editorials, 1929-1932 (Stock Yards Daily Journal) Alcorn, Albert D., 1930 (Commissioner of Pensions endorsements) Alcorn, Hugh M., 1928-1932 (assistant attorney general candidate) Aldehoff, John Sevier, 1929-1932 (Dallas, New Brunswick Fire Insurance Company, 1932 campaign) Aldrich, Winthrop W., 1931-1932 (Chase National Bank, New York City, personal) 422 GROUP: Aldrid – Allem, 1928-1933 (13 folders) Aldridge, Walter H., 1929-1932 (New York City, Texas Gulf Sulphur Company) * Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1929-1932 (African American lawyer, endorsements, addresses delivered at the Detroit 1929 National Bar Association, 1932 campaign) Alexander, Wallace, 1929-1932 (sugar manufacturer, endorsements, personal) Alfange, Dean – Endorsements for Diplomatic Posts, 1929-1932 (New York) 423 GROUP: Allen, A. – Allen, Helen, 1929-1933 (9 folders) Allen, Ben S., 1929-1932 (Associated Press, CRB, USFA, California Almond Growers Exchange, farm relief, tariff) Allen, Florence Ellinwood, 1929-1932 (Ohio Supreme Court Judge, 4 folders) Allen, Frederick H., 1929-1932 (New York City lawyer, endorsements, article Origins of the International Bank Plan, 1927) 424 GROUP: Allen, Herman – Allie, 1929-1933 (9 folders) Allen, Henry Justin, 1929-1933 (Kansas Senate, 2 folders) 425 GROUP: Allig – American Bank, 1929-1933 (17 folders) Althing, 1929-1932 (1000th anniversary, Iceland assembly) American Bankers Association, 1930-1932 (financial issues) 426 GROUP: American Bankr – American F, 1929-1933 (11 folders) American Bar Association, 1929-1932 (meetings, judicial ethics) American Engineering Council, 1929-1932 (civilian engineering vs. Corps of Engineers, Mississippi flood control) American Farm Bureau Federation, 1929-1932 (agriculture issues, money stabilization, June 1932 issue of Bureau Farmer) American Federation of Labor, 1929-1932 The American Freeman – Correspondence, 1930-1932 (anti-Hoover newspaper, 2 folders) 427 GROUP: American G – American Society of Mam, 1929-1933 (16 folders) American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, 1929-1932 American Legion, 1929-1932 American Society of Civil Engineers, 1929-1933 (Palmer C. Ricketts) 428 GROUP: American Society of Military – Anderson, A. W., 1929-1933 (14 folders) American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1929-1931 American Tariff League, 1932 Amorous, Martin, 1929-1932 (Marietta, Georgia, cotton, Federal Farm Board) Amtorg Trading Corporation, 1929-1932 Anders, Edwin, 1929-1931 (Oak Park, Illlinois eccentric) Anders, Myrtle, 1930 (Clark, South Dakota, The Family Bible Teacher) Anderson, A. J., 1930-1931 (Foreign Bible, Book, and Tract Depot) 429 GROUP: Anderson, Adam – Anderson, L., 1929-1933 (11 folders) Anderson, Clarence R., 1929-1932 (Minneapolis contractor) Anderson, Henry W., 1929-1932 (Richmond Republican Club) Anderson, John C., 1929-1932 (Chief Justice, Alabama Supreme Court) 430 GROUP: Anderson, M. – Andrews, H., 1925-1932 (14 folders) Anderson, Mary, 1929-1931 (Women’s Bureau, Department of Labor) Anderson, Sydney, 1929-1932 (General Mills, farm situation, RNC) Anderson, William F., 1929-1932 (Boston Methodist Episcopal Bishop) Anderson, William H., 1929-1933 (New York City, American Protestant Alliance) Andresen, August H., 1929-1932 (Minnesota House) Andrew, A. Piatt, 1929-1933 (Massachusetts House) Andrews, C. Harold, 1932 (Rice stabilization, 1932 campaign) 431 GROUP: Andrews, I. – Anok, 1925-1933 (7 folders) Andrews, Lulah T., 1929-1933 Andrews, Walter G., 1929-1933 (New York House) Andrews, Warren B., 1929 (Dallas, Federal Farm Board) Angell, James R. 1929-1932 (president Yale University) Angell, R. H., 1929-1932 (chair Virginia State Republican Committee) Angerstein, George W., 1929-1932 (Chicago, The Progressive Magazine) Anonymous, 1929-July 1930 (4 folders) 432 GROUP: Ansb – Anst, 1929-1933 Anonymous, 1930 August-1933, and undated (9 folders) 433 GROUP: Anta – Arff, 1929-1933 (12 folders) Anti-Injunction Bill, 1932 (Norris-LaGuardia) Anti-Lynching Legislation, 1929-1932 Anti-Saloon League, 1929-1932 Applications, 1929-1933 Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, 1929-1932 434 GROUP: Arga – Armstrong, W., 1929-1933 (11 folders) Arizona, 1929-1933 Arkansas, 1927-1932 Arledge, Hardin B., 1929-1932 (Middle West Foreign Trade Association) Armaments, 1929-1933 Armor, Mary Harris, 1929-1932 (Women’s Christian Temperance Union, WCTU) 435 GROUP: Arn – Arz, 1929-1933 (12 folders) Army, 1929-1933 (2 folders) Arnold, Ralph, 1928-1933 (Los Angeles, geologist, petroleum engineer) Aronson, Louis, 1929-1932 (Newark, Art Metal Works) 436 GROUP: As – Association N, 1929-1933 (18 folders, note: for associations, sometimes the initial word is ignored and filed as association. For example, NAACP is filed as Association for the Advancement . .) 437 GROUP: Association O – Atwill, 1929-1933 (17 folders) Aston, J. L., 1929-1932 (Public Utilities Commission) Aswell, James B., 1929-1930 (Louisiana House) Asylum, 1932 Atwell, Williams Hawley, 1929-1932 (Texas District Judge) 438 GROUP: Atwood, A – Avery, Seth, 1929-1933 (18 folders) Austin, F. N., 1929-1932 (Oregon eccentric) Austin, Francis, 1932 (sheet music Olympic Blues) Austin, Warren R., 1929-1933 (Vermont Senate) Avery, Sewell, 1931-1932 (president U.S. Gypsum Company) 439 GROUP: Avery, V. – Bachk, 1929-1933 (12 folders) Aviation, 1929-1932 Aydelotte, Frank, 1929-1932 (president Swarthmore College) Ayer, N. W. & Son, Inc., 1930-1933 (advertising, 1932 campaign) Ayers, Grover W., 1929-1931 (Washington DC local governance) Aylesworth, M. H., 1929-1932 (president National Broadcasting Company) Ayres, William A., 1929-1932 (Kansas House) Babson, Roger, 1929-1932 (Babson’s Review, business, unemployment) Bacharach, Isaac, 1929-1932 (Louisiana House) Bache, Jules, 1930-1931 (Bache Review, business, international affairs) 440 GROUP: Bachm – Bailey, G., 1929-1933 (10 folders) Bachman, Carl G., 1929-1932 (West Virginia House) Backus, August C., 1929-1932 (Milwaukee Sentinel, judge) Bacon, J. Everett, 1929-1932 (Philadelphia real estate) Bacon, Robert L., 1929-1932 (New York House) Bailey, David Algar, 1929-1933 (Perth Amboy eccentric) 441 GROUP: Bailey, H – Baker, J, 1929-1933 (12 folders) Bailey, Josiah W., 1929-1933 (North Carolina Senate) Bain, H. Foster, 1929-1933 (American Instititute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers) Baird, David J., Jr., 1929-1933 (New Jersey Senate) Baird, Joseph E., 1929-1930 (Ohio House) Baker, George Barr, 1929-1932 (New York City, social) 442 GROUP: Baker, K – Balkan, 1929-1933 (12 folders) Baker, Newton D., 1929-1932 (Cleveland, Secretary of War) Baker, Norman, 1929-1932 (Muscatine, Iowa, KTNT radio, cancer cure) Balch,