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What does Hoover mean?
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hoover

A hoover is a machine used to clean floors. It sucks in dust and dirt. I bought a hoover yesterday.

hoover

If you hoover something, you clean it with a hoover. I will hoover the room tomorrow.

hoover

(= vacuum) clean with a vacuum cleaner vacuum the carpets

Hoover

a kind of vacuum cleaner 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) United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972) United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)

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Simple sentences

Hoover was well-known to Americans.
Hoover withdrew American forces from Nicaragua.
I need to hoover.
They blamed President Hoover for their situation.
Hoover said this was wrong.
President Hoover tried to solve the crisis.
Where did Edgar Hoover work?

Movie subtitles

If itll make you happy, I'm J. Edgar Hoover.
They gave Director Hoover and his men a daily record and description of all embassy visitors.
We wouldn't take that kind of guff from J. Edgar Hoover, let alone from you.
As soon as I hoover you're straight up it.
You won't be able to get in the airport unless you're J. Edgar Hoover.
Mr. Hoover was quite upset by Mr. Starkwell and his activities.
J Edgar Hoover.
Yeah. Yeah. And then you joined Hoover's team and became Jack Armstrong all-American boy!
J. Edgar Hoover.
Who's in there, J. Edgar Hoover's in there?
The Hoover speech?
And he gave it to J Edgar Hoover, man. which is how it really spread.
You know, once when I was reporting. Lyndon Johnson's top guy gave me the word. They were looking for a successor for J. Edgar Hoover.
I wrote it and the day it appeared, Johnson held a press conference. and appointed Hoover head of the FBI for life.
We don't want any phony warrants or you pretending to be J. Edgar Hoover.
Now, look, honey. I don't mind bringing an ambulance and a stretcher but Mr. Hoover's a pretty busy man.
J. Edgar Hoover?
That's Hoover Dam.
This course will be around Hoover Dam, Mount Charleston and various points throughout the desert.
Right now, they're approaching Hoover Dam.
Like Hoover Dam.
Mr Hoover, in your opinion, is Fielding Mellish a threat to the security of the United States?
And Hoover, he doesn't like Kennedys any more than we do.
H is for Hoover and honey.
I'm a promoter, Mom, not J. Edgar Hoover.
Edgar Hoover watching presidents of the United States. come and go.
J. Edgar Hoover'll get another feather in his hat.
Mr Hoover's gonna like that, too.
You and J. Edgar Hoover, huh?
Mr Hoover wanted it that way.
I want Hoover in Washington directly.
I could be J. Edgar Hoover.
Ask Hoover.

News and current affairs

After observing Silicon Valley during my many years at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, however, I am convinced that dynamic industrial clusters require a flexible economic environment, not government industrial policy.
The last time an American government tried to ensure a balanced budget in the face of a recession was over seventy years ago, during the presidency of Herbert Hoover at the outset of the Great Depression.
As Herbert Hoover could attest, when we see only the economic policy problems of a generation ago, we risk missing the hazards that lie directly in front of our eyes.
He was a tremendous colleague at the Hoover Institution, a true and supportive friend, and admirably humble despite his incredible intellectual influence.
When US President Herbert Hoover tried that recipe, it helped transform the 1929 stock-market crash into the Great Depression.
President Herbert Hoover's failures should be a sanguinary lesson.
Civil society groups and nuclear-weapon states have also made proposals, such as the Hoover Plan, spearheaded by Henry Kissinger.
Three years into the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover was trounced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
US President Herbert Hoover's administration did not initially respond to the depression by emphasizing the need for fiscal austerity.
On the contrary, Hoover and other figures argued in a perfectly modern, Keynesian fashion that large-scale public-works programs were needed to pull the economy out of the trough.
So was I, working out of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
In fact, more than 2 million jobs have been destroyed - the first time since Herbert Hoover's presidency at the beginning of the Great Depression that there has been a net job loss in the US economy over the term of an entire presidential administration.
The Hoover Dam, for example, which created Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the US, was built in 1936 during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal.
In 1930, US President Herbert Hoover and a Republican Congress, enacted the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, sending the tariff war into high gear.
A new American president would do well to remember the disastrous consequences of protectionism in the 1920's and 1930's. President Herbert Hoover's failures should be a sanguinary lesson.

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