Crossword clues for hooverville
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1933, American English, from U.S. president Herbert C. Hoover (1874-1964), who was in office when the Depression began, + common place-name ending -ville. Earlier his name was the basis of Hooverize "economize on food" (1917) from his role as wartime head of the U.S. Food Administration.
Wikipedia
A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built by homeless people in the US during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee. There were hundreds of Hoovervilles across the country during the 1930s and hundreds of thousands of people lived in these slums.
Usage examples of "hooverville".
If Jimmy Beame had come here by freight, in which case he would just about had to have fallen in temporarily with tramps, he could very likely have come back to a Hooverville to spend the nights during his fruitless search for a desk in Tribune Tower.
The storm had paralyzed the city, but fifteen thousand of the unemployed had been hired to dig out Cook County, and efforts to provide relief housing for the down-and-outers in the parks and Hooverville residents had been stepped up.
He never asked again, for there was a Hooverville on the edge of every town.
He settled in Hooverville and he scoured the countryside for work, and the little money he had went for gasoline to look for work.
Every little means, every violence, every raid on a Hooverville, every deputy swaggering through a ragged camp put off the day a little and cemented the inevitability of the day.
The sun was sinking now, and the yellow sunlight fell on the Hooverville and on the willows behind it.
Barbizon-Plaza and look down on the ghetto Hooverville shanties cobbled up in Central Park.
Then I can catch the shuttle home to Hooverville and catch a few hours of sleep.
Inside was a wooden crate big enough to make a pretty good Hooverville shack.