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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...
- into town. Hooverville arose during the Depression, leading to Seattle's growing homeless po****tion. Stationed outside Seattle, the Hooverville housed thousands...
- depression. Tacoma's Hooverville grew in 1924 as the homeless community settled on the waterfront. In 1927, Tacoma's Hooverville was coined "Hollywood"...
- Hoover's opponents developed defamatory epithets to discredit him, such as "Hooverville" (the shanty towns and homeless encampments), "Hoover leather" (cardboard...
- 1987. It contains their first five UK hit singles: "Forgotten Town", "Hooverville", "When the Fingers Point", "Ideal World" and "Born Again". AllMusic...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- themselves homeless, and began congregating in shanty townsdubbed "Hoovervilles" – that began to appear across the country. In response, President Hoover...