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    Hoovervilles were shanty towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President...
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  • Throughout the course of the game, which is set in the fictional city of Hooverville, the user must (while playing the role of female fifth grade detective...
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    depression. Tacoma's Hooverville grew in 1924 as the homeless community settled on the waterfront. In 1927, Tacoma's Hooverville was coined "Hollywood"...
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    into town. Hooverville arose during the Depression, leading to Seattle's growing homeless population. Stationed outside Seattle, the Hooverville housed thousands...
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    Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks" as Solomon, the leader of the shanty town Hooverville. He headed the cast of Michele Soavi's The Church (1989) as Father Gus...
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  • discuss their lack of confidence in him. The Doctor and Martha return to Hooverville, which is attacked by the Daleks. Although Solomon is killed, Dalek Sec...
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  • album and contained their first five UK hit singles: "Forgotten Town", "Hooverville", "When the Fingers Point", "Ideal World" and "Born Again". AllMusic...
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    Hoover's opponents developed defamatory epithets to discredit him, such as "Hooverville" (the shanty towns and homeless encampments), "Hoover leather" (cardboard...
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    enforcement authorities are allied with the growers. At the first migrant Hooverville camp the Joads stop at, Casy is arrested for knocking down a deputy sheriff...
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  • believing he is her dog, named Sandy. Later, Annie and Sandy stumble upon a Hooverville, a shanty town full of formerly well-off people suddenly rendered homeless...
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  • of Bud's journey across the state. Bud spends an evening in Flint's Hooverville, a hobo encampment, where he comments on the mixture of races; the author...
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  • They find a newspaper article about recent disappearances and travel to Hooverville, a tent city in Central Park. There they meet Solomon, the leader, who...
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    themselves homeless, and began congregating in shanty towns – dubbed "Hoovervilles" – that began to appear across the country. In response, President Hoover...
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  • California Gold Rush. There was squatting during the Great Depression in Hoovervilles and also during World War II. Shanty towns returned to the US after the...
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    gets lost in a Bonus Army riot. Following harmonica music to a local Hooverville, he joins the Schofields, an extended family of dispossessed Kansas farmers...
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    Gray, Christopher (August 29, 1993). "Streetscapes: Central Park's 'Hooverville'; Life Along 'Depression Street'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
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    impoverished. People who lost their jobs or homes lived in shantytowns or Hoovervilles. Many New Deal programs were designed to increase employment and reduce...
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    Steinbeck to personally interview multiple families in the impoverished Hoovervilles of the San Joaquin Valley. As Steinbeck visited the slums that hugged...
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    large numbers during both the California Gold Rush and World War II. Hoovervilles were homeless camps built across the country during the Great Depression...
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    shantytowns, or "Hoovervilles" (named after Herbert Hoover, the president in office when the Depression began). These "Hoovervilles" were self-made communities...
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  • Charge To Keep I Have", performed by Marion Williams (2:34) "Xmas in Hooverville" (1:51) "The Tree House" (1:08) "Night Baseball", performed by Marion...
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  • dog on a better leash and give it a license. Then Annie encounters a Hooverville, where the homeless population living there complains about former president...
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    The same day, President Obama declared New Jersey a disaster area. A Hooverville for the unemployed on the outskirts of Paterson, 1937 Downtown, Paterson...
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    Related Bill of Rights Encampment sweeps Housing insecurity LGBT youth Hooverville Squatting Veterans Women Mental health Tent cities Relocation programs...
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    and crappie. The south area is located between the town of Conchas and Hooverville. Visitors can access the lake via New Mexico State Road 104, at mile...
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    was an article that he wrote for The New Republic, "Wasting Away in Hooverville". Chait appears in The Rivalry, a 2007 HBO documentary about the history...
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    Guatemala. During the 1930s Great Depression, shanty towns nicknamed Hoovervilles sprang up across the United States. Following the Great Depression, squatters...
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  • Paul property, Fourth Avenue North, Saint Petersburg, Florida Skid row Hooverville "The court case that forced OC to stop ignoring its homeless". 11 September...
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    law enforcement against labor unions and were involved in attacks on Hoovervilles during the Great Depression. On May 15, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge...
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  • Kick in the Grass. Herman co-wrote lyrics for the songs "Ideal World," "Hooverville," and "Sad Songs" for Henry Priestman's band The Christians on their...
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