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Hoover

noun

United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932). Synonyms: William Henry Hoover, William Hoover.

United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972). Synonyms: J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover.

31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964). Synonyms: Herbert Clark Hoover, Herbert Hoover, President Hoover.

A kind of vacuum cleaner.

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"Hoover" Quotes from Famous Books

... sorts of farms from that one, Bessie," she said. "You'll see a farm where everything is done the way it should be, and, while I think Paw Hoover's a mighty nice man, I've got an idea that on his farm everything is done just about opposite ...

— The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm - Or, Bessie King's New Chum • Jane L. Stewart

... memorial of some sort to the Inventor of the Telegraph was first broached by Robert B. Hoover, manager of the Western Union Telegraph office, Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. The idea once started spread with the rapidity of the electric fluid itself, and, under the able management of James D. Reid, a fund was raised, partly by ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse

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