Hooverville

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A crudely built camp put up usually on the edge of a town to house the dispossessed and destitute during the depression of the 1930s.

[After Herbert Clark Hoover.]

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No references found			Perhaps best known for their hit Hooverville (and they Promised Us The World), the band also enjoyed chart success with singles like Forgotten Town, Ideal World, When The Fingers Point and Born Again. Return of Christians by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) The highly acclaimed album followed the success of their first three singles, Forgotten Town, Hooverville and When the Fingers Point and produced a further two chart hits Ideal World and Born Again. Garry's still got plenty of soul; Music by Birmingham Mail (England) And you thought the country was becoming Hooverville, right? Consumerism alive and well in recession by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)			hooray Hooray Henry hooray! Hoorn Hoorn Islands hoosegow hoosgow Hoosier Hoosier State hoot hoot down hoot owl hootch hootchy-kootchy hootenanny hooter hoots Hoove hooved Hooven Hoover Hoover Dam hoover up Hoover; hoovering Hooverville hooves HOP Hop back hop clover hop field Hop flea Hop fly Hop froth fly hop garden hop hornbeam hop into hop marjoram Hop moth hop off hop on hop out Hop picker hop pole Hop tree hop trefoil hop up Hop vine Hop, skip and jump hop, skip, and a jump hop, step, and jump			Hoover, Herbert (Clark) Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, Herbert Clark Hoover, J Hoover, J (ohn) Hoover, J Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, John Edgar Hoover, Lou Hoover, William (Henry) Hoover, William (Henry) Hoover, William Henry Hoover; hoovered hoovered hoovered up hoovered up Hooverfest Hoovering Hoovering hoovering up hoovering up Hoovers Hoovers hoovers up hoovers up Hooverville Hoovervilles Hoovervilles hooves hooves hooves hooves hop hop hop hop hop Hop (plant) Hop (plant) Hop back hop backs Hop Clock Phase Modulation Enable hop clover Hop count hop field Hop flea Hop fly Hop Frog Hop froth fly hop garden Hop Growers of America hop hornbeam hop hornbeam hop in hop into Hop limit

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