Herbert Hoover: Inaugural Address

Glossary

• the additional burdens imposed on our judicial system by the eighteenth amendment increased crime due to the nationwide prohibition of alcohol sales
• the Great War World War I
• our sister Republics of the Western Hemisphere the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean
• race not “race” in an ethnic sense, but rather in the sense of “the human race”
• recent treaty for the renunciation of war the Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed August 27, 1928