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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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... return without my approval House bill No. 1094, entitled "An act granting a pension to Francis E. Hoover." ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland

... words, a sort of Hoover Belgian distribution plan so that the Bolsheviki could not use the food we sent in there for propaganda purposes and to starve their enemies and ...

— The Bullitt Mission to Russia • William C. Bullitt

... like to give all of us a little joy ride. Tilly here told me only yesterday she never had been out in a car except once in a little broken-down flivver; and then she had to walk back home, nearly three miles. I wonder if Jerry wouldn't pick us up and take us over to the Hoover place right now. I've a good mind to ask him. Would ...

— The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant • Donald Ferguson

... force. As soon as the head of Brannan's column arrived I marched across-country to the left, and encamped that night at the little town of Millersburg, in the vicinity of Liberty Gap. I was directed to move from Millersburg, on Hoover's Gap—a pass in the range of hills already referred to, through which ran the turnpike from Murfreesboro' to Manchester—but heavy rains had made the country roads almost impassable, and the last of my division did not reach Hoover's Gap ...

— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan

... chap! Bessie had lived for a good many years with an old farmer called Hoover and his wife. They had a son, too, a worthless young scamp named Jake, lazy and ready for any sort of mischief ...

— A Campfire Girl's Happiness • Jane L. Stewart

... an' set down by your side And talk about the good old days beyond the big divide; Of the rackaboar, the snaix, the bear, the Rocky Mountain goat, Of the conversazzhyony 'nd of Casey's tabble-dote, And a word of them old pardners that stood by us long ago (Three-Fingered Hoover, Sorry Tom and Parson Jim, you know)! Old times, old friends, John Smith, would make our hearts beat high again, And we'd see the snow-top mountain like we used to see 'em then; The magpies would go flutterin' like strange sperrits to 'nd fro, And we'd ...

— John Smith, U.S.A. • Eugene Field

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