Citations:Hoover leather

English citations of Hoover leather

• 1993, The Southern Quarterly

  ... sullen young men in shoes patched with “Hoover leather”—and labels both pictures and people with an almost clinical disinterestedness. About this photo project critic Frank Soos observes the irony that now Richard manifestly “prefers to ...

• 2016, Albert Marrin, FDR and the American Crisis, Ember (→ISBN), page 110:

  They lined their worn-out shoes with “Hoover leather,” cardboard strips. Wherever he appeared, crowds shook their fists, thumbed their noses, and chanted, “Hang Hoover!”