Word: boosterism
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...Alumni booster clubs and similar athletic recruiting bodies were dealt an economic blow last week when the Internal Revenue Bureau ended their tax free status. Athletic scholarships as such were not affected, but the bureau will tax alumni monies used to pay for campus visits of prospective athletes...
...organization which raises funds to be used in travel and other activities to persuade prospective students with outstanding athletic ability to attend a particular university, and which is not an intergral part of such institution, is not exempt from Federal Income Tax as an educational institution." Contributions to such booster groups can no longer be deducted from personal income taxes, the Bureau said...
Turner pointed out that the Commission had already obtained court orders against five TV booster stations, whose violations were similar to those of WHRB, but "much less serious...
Cork, Author Hawley has a knowing way with business lingo. While Cash and Lory's vapid love scenes tax patience as well as belief, the vitality of Cash McCall rests in its forceful portrait of a venture capitalist who is as remote from a backslapping booster as Reinhold Niebuhr is from Norman Vincent Peale...
...Prensa Libre, "he was being generous." Columnist José Pardo Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo with a superiority complex, a frivolous tourist...