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Under his leadership, the Department of Commerce became one of the first federal agencies to take an interest in the technology.</cite></p> <hr/> <p> </p> </div> <div id="s-lg-content-30912570" class=" clearfix"> <p><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20240302004733im_/https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/105532/images/_10_LC-DIG-npcc-26256.jpg"/></p> </div> <div id="s-lg-content-30912745" class=" clearfix"> <p class="p1"><cite>Herbert Hoover and President Calvin Coolidge address a group of radiomen at the White House. 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It was one of the ways, Hoover believed, that the department had a direct impact on the lives of the people it served.</p> <p>To that end, Hoover organized several conferences that explored the best ways to standardize and regulate the rapidly expanding industry, and ensured that the Bureau of Standards researched radio technology.</p> <blockquote> <p>“When I became head of the Department I found that one of its duties was to develop and regulate the use of radio... a new and universal art profoundly modifying every aspect of human life.”<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref" title="">[i]</a></p> <p class="p1"><cite>~Herbert Hoover, Memoirs</cite></p> </blockquote> <div>  <hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"/> <div id="edn"> <p><a href="#_ednref" name="_edn1" title="">[i]</a> Hoover, <em>Memoirs</em>, Volume 2, 139.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="s-lg-row-4" class="row s-lg-row"> <div id="s-lg-col-6" class="col-md-4"> <div 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