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===Hoover Library at Stanford===
===Hoover Library at Stanford===
During this time, Hoover realized that he was in a unique position to collect information about the Great War and its aftermath. He worked with Stanford to support his Hoover War Collection and donated to it the extensive files of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the U.S. Food Administration, and the American Relief Administration. Scholars were sent to Europe to collect pamphlets, society publications, government documents, newspapers, posters, proclamations, and other ephemeral materials related to the war and the revolutions and political movements that had followed it. The collection was later renamed the Hoover War Library, and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
During this time, Hoover realized that he was in a unique position to collect information about the Great War and its aftermath. He worked with Stanford to support his Hoover War Collection and donated to it the extensive files of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, the U.S. Food Administration, and the American Relief Administration. Scholars were sent to Europe to collect pamphlets, society publications, government documents, newspapers, posters, proclamations, and other ephemeral materials related to the war and the revolutions and political movements that had followed it. The collection was later renamed the Hoover War Library, and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
==Efficiency==
After working with the Food Administration, Hoover became president of the Federated American Engineering Societies.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7e4eBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 Republicans and Labor: 1919--1929]</ref><ref name=Himmelberg>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6KqqgTB8Q_wC&pg=PA169 Antitrust and Regulation During World War I and the Republican Era, 1917-1932]</ref> Hoover's design was set on increasing efficiency and reducing waste.<ref name=Himmelberg /><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TQJAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA284 Mechanical Engineering, Volume 43]</ref> As president of the FAES, Hoover constructed a plan to study waste in the industrial sector, and he had a strong focus on labor matters.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8R4UmnJhxLoC&pg=PA88 Herbert Hoover As Secretary of Commerce: Studies in New Era Thought and Practice]</ref> The result was a 400 page report titled ''Waste in Industry'',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NZHGAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 The Life of Herbert Hoover: Imperfect Visionary, 1918–1928]</ref> which was a highly publicized report at the time.<ref>[http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19210215.2.24 Engineers Unite to Stop Wastes of Industries], Cornell Daily Sun</ref><ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E1DF153EEE3ABC4952DFBF66838A639EDE&legacy=true ENGINEERS ENDORSE HOOVER WORK PLAN], [[The New York Times]]</ref>
==Commerce Secretary==
==Commerce Secretary==
* Hoover, Herbert C. ''Freedom Betrayed'', 2011
* Hoover, Herbert C. ''Freedom Betrayed'', 2011
* Dwight M. Miller and Timothy Walch, eds; ''Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Documentary History.'' Greenwood Press. 1998. [http://www.questia.com/read/15310403 online edition]
* Dwight M. Miller and Timothy Walch, eds; ''Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Documentary History.'' Greenwood Press. 1998. [http://www.questia.com/read/15310403 online edition]
* American Engineering Council, Committee on Elimination of Waste in Industry; ''[https://archive.org/details/wasteinindustry00ameriala Waste in Industry]'' Federated American Engineering Societies, 1921
==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==