| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1936 - 2096 páginas
...sanitation, and a crowding of human beings into totally inadequate tents or crude structures built of boards, weeds, and anything that was found at hand...to give a pitiful semblance of a home at its worst. Words cannot describe some of the conditions we saw. During the warm weather when the temperature rises... | |
| Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Dorothy Wolff Douglas - 1917 - 346 páginas
...sanitation, and a crowding of human beings into totally inadequate tents or crude structures built of boards, weeds, and anything that was found at hand...to give a pitiful semblance of a home at its worst. Words cannot describe some of the conditions we saw." 32 No wonder that the migratory workers of Baltimore... | |
| United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics - 1938 - 412 páginas
...sanitation, and a crowding of human beings into totally inadequate tents or crude structures built of boards, weeds, and anything that was found at hand...give a pitiful semblance of a home at its worst." Three thousand miles away, in New Jersey, "Crude barracks designed to house 10 to 30 families are provided.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1972 - 1200 páginas
...some of the parents can be imagined, and innumerable inconveniences add to the general discomfort. In this environment there is bred a social sullenness...that is to be deplored, but which can be understood iy those «ho have viewed the scenes that violato all the recognized standards of living ... It is... | |
| Mark Allan Jackson - 2008 - 317 páginas
...beings into totally inadequate tents or crude structures built of boards, weeds, and anything that was at hand to give a pitiful semblance of a home at its worst." In their report, they also added, "Words cannot describe some of the conditions we saw."106 These Hoovervilles... | |
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