On March 4th, 1921, he entered President Wilson’s Administration in the quite humble position of Secretary of Commerce. From this position he rose in 1929 top become President of the United States, being elected by a greater majority of votes than any other man who had, up to then, reached the Presidential chair.

It is a curious coincidence that President Hoover filled this exalted position as the 31st President, a number in itself making a 4.

If readers will turn back to my previous remarks on the apparently fatalistic importance of the numbers of 4’s and 8’s, they will realize what a vital meaning may be attached to the fact that President Hoover is a 1-4 man with the number 8 in Zodiacal opposition.

On page 84 one may read that in occult symbolism, the number 31 is “not a fortunate number from a worldly or material standpoint.”

In many ways it must be admitted that the United States, under its 31st President, in spite of all his great powers of organization, had not been fortunate “from a worldly or material standpoint.” Unemployment had risen to the highest figure in history; Stock Exchange panics had ruined or impoverished millions of people. Standard shares like U.S. steel fell to the lowest levels conceivable, while universal trade depression sapped the foundations of Industry.

Under its 31st President, the United States was faced by a greater problem of Prohibition than ever before.

Large revenue has been lost, money had been diverted into the hands of “gangsters” and outlaws, and crime stalked brazenly through the land.

In the middle of this critical and dangerous situation, the 31st President conceived the idea of giving a moratorium of a year to the debtor-nations of the United States.

In his generous effort to help broken-down European nations, I fear President Hoover’s gift only augmented their squabbles and resulted in his own “crucification,” as has happened to other “Saviours” who have attempted to help ungrateful humanity.

Those born about the centre of the month of August often rise to great positions, but as often suffer equally great reverses. History gives us many examples: Napoleon, born August 15th; Louis XVI, born August 23rd; the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, born August 18th; Empress Elizabeth of Austria (assassinated), born August 18th,; the Czarevitch, born August 9th; President Carnot of France (assassinated), born August 11th.