Hoover

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It’s a spectacle that comes at a challenging moment for Hoover Dam, as experts warn that Lake Mead’s dwindling water levels could threaten the dam’s ability to generate hydropower.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

His mother, whom J. Edgar Hoover would call “the most dangerous woman in America,” was born into a middle-class home and grew up in a suburb north of Milwaukee.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

After leaving the central bank in 2011, Warsh, among other things, served as a lecturer at Stanford University’s business school and as a visiting fellow at the university’s Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

“The Fed doesn’t need a revolution,” he said in a Hoover Institution podcast last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

In the spring of 1925, when White was still based in Houston, Hoover expressed outrage to him that several agents in the San Francisco field office were drinking liquor.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann