Word: boosterism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is certainly a morale booster. I recently was sent to Korea again. Quite frankly, I had many nights of horrible thoughts. If I should be killed "for my country," my wife and family would be left all alone . . . the Government allowing her my insurance and some "memories...
...campaign without "me-tooing" the Fair Deal. Ike supporters needed reassurance, and with Scott's news, Dewey & Co. decided they could be given reassurance. Emerging from Duff's office, Tom Dewey publicly planted himself before the waiting reporters, in the role of chief Ike-booster. Had the talk been about Ike? Dewey admitted freely that it had. "We are all for him," said Dewey. What if Ike was too busy to run? "We don't contemplate such possibilities," said Dewey firmly. Jim Duff added a vigorous agreement: "What the hell do you think I'm doing...
Tireless and imaginative. Stein has won the backing of the American Legion (he is a World War I veteran) and of such stage friends as Tallulah Bankhead, a longtime subscriber and general booster. Thanks largely to Stein and the Star, patients at Carville have established their right to vote (a technicality of state law once disfranchised them); their precinct is usually the first in the state to report. They have won the right to have visitors, a month's leave a year when their disease is quiescent. Stein will not rest until state and federal laws recognize that, except...
...United States standing by roadsides with his thumb up on route from Boston to Los Angeles. This letter, written on the eve of the All-Indian Pow-wow from a hotel room in Flagstaff, Arizons, records some of the impressions of a Public School Britisher confronting P. J. Booster...
...offered him the OPS job. By coincidence, it was Eric Johnston who put Mike Di Salle up for the job-weeks before Johnston himself moved into the mobilization picture as Di Salle's immediate superior. Johnston had heard a lot about the Toledo mayor from a Di Salle booster in Washington...