July 14th, 2011
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HOOVER, Herbert Clark. (1874-1964) Thirty-first President, 1929-33, leader of international relief efforts, engineer, humanitarian. Typed Letter Signed as President, “Herbert Hoover,” April 5, 1929, 1pp., on White House stationary, to Dr. Alton M. Young. In full, “The Fiftieth Anniversary of the ministry of Ballington Booth is rightly the occasion for general felicitations, and I gladly extend mine both to him and to Mrs. Maud Booth. Their work in developing the Volunteers of America into an organization of its present high social value is a distinctive contribution to human welfare.” traces of previous mounting of the reverse, else fine. Ballington Booth was the son of William and Catherine Booth, founders of The Salvation Army and a cofounder of Volunteers of America.
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