GoW--Chapter 20--"Shot Through The Hand, and You're To Blame..."
Herbert Hoover's campaign promise: "A chicken in every pot."
It didn't pan out.
The Destitute: Lived in "Hoovervilles"
Hoovervilles:
The Rich: William Randolph Hearst
and his 250,000 acre castled estate.
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The scene where Ma is surrounded by a bunch of hungry children makes me think of how adaptable the children are in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Because the children don't have as much of a way of living to unlearn, they figure out how to survive first...
Are Hoovervilles only a thing of the past?