JimBowie1958
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You forgot your /sarcasm tag.Hoover checked every day and said no one was starving, and in addition, a new business enterprise had been created, selling apples on street corners. As long as we had garbage dumps or garbage cans behind restaurants no one needed to go hungry-- but the aged.No starvation?
Lie.
Digital History
President Herbert Hoover declared, "Nobody is actually starving. The hoboes are better fed than they have ever been." But in New York City in 1931, there were 20 known cases of starvation; in 1934, there were 110 deaths caused by hunger. There were so many accounts of people starving in New York that the West African nation of Cameroon sent $3.77 in relief.