Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana) in 1900, secured an M. A. in 1904. His thesis was "The Negro Problem." Long a member of the law firm of Hays and Hays, he began to interest himself in politics, became the Republican National Committee Chairman in 1918. People wondered at this "human flivver," this sophisticated "booster," this shrewd politician who quoted the Golden Rule, who said, "There is no twilight zone in politics; right is right and wrong is wrong . . . rights shall be held equally sacred and sacredly equal...
...drawn by imaginative architects of what New York will look like fifty years from now, with huge buildings and three or four street levels, have always appealed to an innate American love of size merely for its own sake. Mr. Clarence S. Stein, who is apparently unaffected by this booster spirit, writes in the current number of The Survey of some breakdowns in the superstructure of New York. "Inadequate housing facilities, inadequate water supplies, inadequate transportation", he writes," these are but the larger and more obvious ills that derive from congestion of population...
What with the vexations of coal mining and being mistakes for Virginians, the inhabitants of West Virginia have only vestiges of booster spirit left. A new baptism under the old Indian name of Kanawha will give the people an opportunity to tell all about the virtues of the State while the new name is being learned. Then they can drift along on that tide of fame, and when it subsides Senator Chilton's argument will still hold and they can have another christening, if it should be necessary...
...Woolen Co., Andrew G. Pierce Jr., told stockholders that the company "would devote its time to the manufacture of woolen goods." He is keeping his promise. Last week, he abolished the Company's Department of Labor, which cared for the workers' welfare, published a magazine called The Booster, provided nurses and physicians for the sick, gave all employes' children a free two weeks' holiday at beautiful summer camps. All of these were hobbies of former President William Wood and his son, the vice-President, who resigned, recently, about the time the company "passed" a dividend...
...should be, we believe. As the modern university is organized, the office of President requires a combination prophet, business man, booster and expert on amortization. Dean Pound might be all of these. But he knows that the teacher is the man around whom any educational system ultimately revolves and that no finer opportunity comes to any man than to work with younger minds, to train those minds and set them thinking. New York World...