hoover

     

The name Hoover may refer to:

Trivia about hoover

  • Despite this prez's efforts, he couldn't get over his Depression
  • This brand name means to eat voraciously, or to vacuum
  • He was U.S. President when the stock market crashed in 1929
  • In July 1932 this U.S. president ordered the forcible eviction of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
  • This brand name has become a noun & a verb for vacuum
  • This future president headed the Food Administration during the war
  • Hailing from West Branch, Iowa, he was the first president born west of the Mississippi
  • The British turned this brand name into a verb meaning to vacuum
  • In 1907 Murray Spangler invented a "suction sweeper" that led to this company's formation the following year
  • It's the highest concrete arch dam in the United States
  • In 1928 this Republican campaigned for president promising "a chicken in every pot"
  • The Electric Suction Sweeper Company was later renamed for this man (who had bought the patent from a janitor)
  • At his national historic site in West Branch, Iowa
  • In 1921 Harding appointed this man Secretary of Commerce; 8 years later he was the president
  • Filling a business vacuum, he started the Electric Suction Sweeper Company in 1908
  • In 1926 a "beater bar" was added to this company's product; it tapped the carpet to loosen ground-in dirt
  • In 1955 this former GOP president completed a government commission and retired from public service
  • "Principles of Mining"
  • "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"
  • Pro-Prohibition, suffered from the Depression, got vacuumed out of office in 1932
  • During the war the Food Admin. headed by this future president controlled the distribution of food
  • "Hermit Author of Palo Alto"
  • He went to Stanford & became a mining engineer
  • Warren Harding chose this future president as his Secretary of Commerce