J. Edgar Hoover

  

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J. Edgar Hoover

Definition: J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

Noun

1. United States lawyer who was director of the FBI for 48 years (1895-1972).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: J. Edgar Hoover

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Movie/TV Titles

J. Edgar Hoover (1987)

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

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Commercial Usage: J. Edgar Hoover

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Books

  • The Franklin Scare: A Novel About the True Life and War-Time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and a Sailor Named Oliver Beebe (reference)

  • The Privacy War: One Congressman, J. Edgar Hoover and the Fight for the Fourth Amendment (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: J. Edgar Hoover

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J. Edgar Hoover, full-length portrait, arrives to appear before the Warren Commision to testify about President Kennedy's assassination. Credit: Library of Congress.

Miss Helen Gandy, secretary to J. Edgar Hoover. Miss Gandy at desk I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, and J. Edgar Hoover as prehistoric men hunting with clubs. Credit: Library of Congress.

J. Edgar Hoover. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Anagrams: J. Edgar Hoover

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters ".-a-d-e-e-g-h-j-o-o-r-r-v"

-4 letters: overheard, regrooved.

-5 letters: gheraoed, overaged, overdare, overdear, overdoer, overgoad, overhard, overhead, overhear, overrode, regroove.

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Alternative Orthography: J. Edgar Hoover


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4A 2E      45 64 67 61 72      48 6F 6F 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001010 00101110 00100000 01000101 01100100 01100111 01100001 01110010 00100000 01001000 01101111 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#46 &#32 &#69 &#100 &#103 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#72 &#111 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 002E      0045 0064 0067 0061 0072      0048 006F 006F 0076 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4416239707367842428181887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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