Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realty at El Dorado, Ark., where he is president of the Chamber of Commerce, a 39-year-old booster-bachelor. Accepting his new office, he cried: "I should hold high and keep clean the banner...
...aviator man, one in the industry, will tell you, after he has blown the booster thoughts out of his mind, that very, very few of the manufacturing or transport concerns have been making money. However, he will instantly add, if they do this and that, profits will ensue after a few years. To uncover some of the thises and thats in respect to transport problems, air traffic managers met at Kansas City last week...
...race, color or creed who can furnish proof of need and sincerity of purpose." Its founder: Jacob J. Vandever, onetime (1922) President of the New York Rotary Club, and active philanthropist who likes to dress up as "Father Knickerbocker" each year for the outing of the Broadway Association, booster organization. Associated with Founder Vandever on a national advisory committee are such varied figures as the Hon. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi; General Robert Lee Bullard, U. S. A. retired; James William Crabtree, Secretary of the National Education Association. Honorary Chairman of the Founders Committee is Mrs. Edward Everett Gann...
...newspapers nearby, the Houghton Mining Gazette, the Calumet News. The young editors were friends, newstraders. When their ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr. Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck to Detroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life) and banking (Union Trust Co.), to make a reputation,as a city-booster...
...critical, sarcastic, Boob-Baiter Henry Louis Mencken should abandon the American Mercury and edit a Happiness Monthly and Rotarian Booster, it would not arouse greater surprise than the announcement from Moscow last week that a new Soviet magazine. Our Achievements, has been started under the editorship of Maxim Gorky...