The people in the fine apartment houses insisted that Hooverville be destroyed because it spoiled their view. It was clear to a growing child that th… - Muriel Rukeyser

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The people in the fine apartment houses insisted that Hooverville be destroyed because it spoiled their view. It was clear to a growing child that the terrible, murderous differences between the ways people lived were being upheld all over the city, that if you moved one block in any direction you would find an entirely different order of life.