This was the popular name for old newspapers that were used by the homeless as bedding during the great depression

The popular name for old newspapers that were used by the homeless as bedding during the Great Depression was "Hoover blankets".

The Great Depression arose in 1929 with the crash of Wall Street, causing the greatest economic crisis in the history of the United States. Since it was a crisis generated by the economic policies carried out by President Herbert Hoover, his name was involved in a large number of epithets referring to the poverty of that time, such as Hooverville (referring to the irregular slums that they were created during those years) and Hoover Blankets (the newspapers with which the homeless covered themselves to sleep at night).

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