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Hooverville (And They Promised Us the World), was the second single by the UK pop band, The Christians (band). It reached no. 22 in the UK singles chart in 1987, and also featured on their million-selling album, The Christians (album) , which reached no. 2 in the UK album charts.
AllMusic has retrospectively been generally favourable towards the album, stating that the band "blend socially conscious lyrics of life under Thatcher with smooth, slickly programmed pop-soul arrangements" and concluding that the record was "a solid debut with very few filler tracks".
Migrants often found themselves living in squalid conditions in makeshift camps and shantytowns without adequate sanitation, clean water, or medical care. These camps, sometimes derogatorily called "Hoovervilles," after President Herbert Hoover, were characterized by overcrowding and lack of basic amenities.
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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 used to cover holes in the soles of shoes), and "Hoover blanket" (old newspaper used to cover oneself from the cold). [65]
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Elon Musk became rich and famous as an entrepreneur, but he’s quickly making a new name for himself as one of the most singular and polarizing figures of any presidential administration.
Whoville, sometimes written as Who-ville, is a fictional town created by author Theodor Seuss Geisel, under the name Dr. Seuss.Whoville appeared in the 1954 book Horton Hears a Who! and the 1957 book How the Grinch Stole Christmas! with significant differences between the two renditions.