J. Edgar Hoover
A community portal about J. Edgar Hoover with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John Edgar Hoover was the founder of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in its present form and its director from May 10, 1924... [more]
A community portal about J. Edgar Hoover with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John Edgar Hoover was the founder of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in its present form and its director from May 10, 1924, until his death in 1972. Hoover was appointed the first director of the FBI by President Calvin Coolidge. During his tenure, Hoover attained extraordinary power and unusual discretionary authority, while also feuding with many adversaries. It is because of Hoover that, since his tenure, FBI directors have been limited to ten-year terms.
Inventors concur
Archive, amended from issue 2, January 1995
NEW YORK. A historic agreemnet was reached here today between two of the greatest inventors of the twentieth century.
K. Edgar Hoover (younger brother to J. Edgar Hoover and elder brother to L. Edgar Hoover) and Lazlo Biro amicably agreed to swap tradenames for their respective products.
For years now, Mr Biro has been marketing his ballpoint pen as a ‘Hoover’ because he liked the sound of the name. In an extraordinary coincidence, Mr Hoover had been identifying his vacuum cleaning device as a ‘Biro’ because he thought it sounded funny.
Now that these household items have been renamed we shall never again have to search for lost Hoovers under the sofa (invented by Stanislav Coffee-Table), nor will we give the Biro a quick run up and down the living room carpet.
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