Here’s a 1961 “Christmas Message” Printed Letter by
Former President Herbert Hoover to his friend, and noted 1st woman
banker, Mary Roebling
HERBERT HOOVER
(1874 – 1964)
31st PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Hoover was also the
Secretary of Commerce under President Harding and Coolidge, An Engineer, Humanitarian,
and Life Insurance Executive!
HERE’S A RARE LETTER BY HOOVER from his home at “The Towers~Waldorf
Astoria” in New York City to his friend Mary Roebling (1905-1994) who was the first woman to
serve as President of a major US bank (the Trenton Trust Company) and the first
woman Governor of the American Stock Exchange! 1p., dated December 25, 1961.
Hoover’s message discusses the
tide of atheism rising to more violence than at any time since the ‘Sermon on
the Mount,’ and that all faiths are in danger: Christian, Jewish, the teachings
of Buddha and of Mohammed.
THE ORIGINAL PRINTED HOOVER
FREE FRANK TRANSMITTAL ENVELOPE COVER IS INCLUDED WITH THE LETTER, ADDRESSED
TO:
“Miss Mary Roebling,
President
Trenton Trust Company
28 West State Street,
Trenton, New Jersey”
MARY
ROEBLING
(1905 – 1994)
FIRST
WOMAN TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT OF A MAJOR US BANK, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE
NATIONAL STATE BANK OF NEW JERSEY, and THE FIRST WOMAN GOVERNOR OF THE AMERICAN
STOCK EXCHANGE
PROVENANCE: This Letter
was purchased from the now deceased grandson of Mary Roebling (David Dutch) at
his home in New Jersey in 2017, and has never seen the collector market!
The document measures 7¼” x 10½” and is in VERY FINE, CLEAN CONDITION! AND
BOLDLY SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT!
A RARE ADDITION TO YOUR
HISTORICAL-POLITICAL-PRESIDENTIAL MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF
THE HONORABLE
HERBERT HOOVER
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 –
October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933).
Hoover, born to Quaker parents of German, Swiss, Canadian, English, and Irish descent, was
originally a professional mining engineer and author. He
achieved American and international prominence in humanitarian relief efforts
and served as head of the U.S. Food Administration before and during World War I. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s
under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted
partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic
modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily
won the Republican nomination, despite having
no elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be
elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents
(along with William Howard Taft) elected without electoral experience
or high military rank. America was at the height of an economic bubble at the
time, facilitating a landslide victory for Hoover over Democrat Al Smith.
Hoover, a globally experienced engineer, believed strongly in the Efficiency Movement, which held that the government and
the economy were riddled with inefficiency and waste, and could be improved by
experts who could identify the problems and solve them. He also believed in the
importance of volunteerism and of the role of individuals in society and the
economy. Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two
Presidents to redistribute their salary (President Kennedy was the other;
he donated all his paychecks to charity). When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than
eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with government
enforced efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as
the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25% to 63% and increases in
corporate taxes. These initiatives did not produce economic recovery during his
term, but served as the groundwork for various policies incorporated in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. After 1933 he
became a spokesman in opposition to the domestic and foreign policies of the
New Deal. In 1947 President Harry S. Truman brought him back
to help make the federal bureaucracy more efficient through the Hoover Commission. The consensus
among historians is that Hoover's defeat in the 1932 election was caused
primarily by his failure to end the downward economic spiral, although his
support for strong enforcement of prohibition was also a
significant factor.
BIOGRAPHY OF MARY ROEBLING
Mary Gindhart Herbert Roebling (1905–1994) was an
American banker. She was the first woman to serve as president of a major US
bank, and the first woman Governor of the American Stock Exchange.
Biography
Mary Gindhart was born
in West
Collingswood, New Jersey on July 29, 1905.
She attended public schools in Moorestown and Haddonfield. She married
musician Arthur Herbert in her teens and
had a daughter. He died three years later. She then worked in Philadelphia at
an investment house while taking night classes in business administration and
merchandising at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Her second husband,
Siegfried Roebling, died in 1936 and left her Trenton Trust stock. She took his
seat on the Trenton Trust Company board. She was elected president of the board
on January 21, 1937 and became the first woman to serve as president of a major
American bank. She served as either president or chair of the board until 1972
when the bank merged with National State. She then chaired the combined banks
until 1984. From 1958 to 1962, she was governor of the American Stock
Exchange. She was their first woman governor.
Through several
administrations, Roebling served as a civilian aide to the Secretary of the
Army. She was made president of the new Army War College Foundation in 1978.
That year she also founded Women's Bank N.A. in Denver and chaired its board
until 1983.
She died on October 25,
1994 of renal failure at her home in Trenton, NJ.
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