Hoover blanket

Etymology
, US president at the start of the Great Depression, +.

Noun

 * 1)  Old newspaper or cardboard, used by a homeless person to cover themselves for warmth.
 * 2) * 2006, Barbara Bennett Peterson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Preserver of Spirit and Hope, Nova Science Pub Incorporated:
 * Poverty became a way of life for 40 million Americans as laid off workers roamed the streets sleeping under Hoover &#39;blankets&#39; - old newspapers. By 1933 the number of unemployed would mount to between 13 and 15 million
 * 1) * 2006, Barbara Bennett Peterson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Preserver of Spirit and Hope, Nova Science Pub Incorporated:
 * Poverty became a way of life for 40 million Americans as laid off workers roamed the streets sleeping under Hoover &#39;blankets&#39; - old newspapers. By 1933 the number of unemployed would mount to between 13 and 15 million