Word: boosterism
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...This booster's boast was not uttered by a Kansas Citian but by a visiting French novelist. When Andre Maurois, in 1946, was teaching a course in biography at the University of Kansas City, he was smitten with Kansas City's beauty. "Who in Europe, or in America for that matter," he asked, "knows that Kansas City is one of the loveliest cities on earth...
...Ringwood, County Hampshire, England, a blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...
...citizens to show homespun Speaker of the House Joe Martin "the pride and affection they feel in him by virtue of the high office he has attained." The plan had been conceived by William S. Canning, a movie-chain manager, a Democrat, and Fall River's most zealous booster. Canning was well aware that Joe had carried strongly Democratic Fall River only once in the last 22 years...
Hiroshima, however, was stressing construction and optimism. Just a year ago the city began a boomtown effort of clearing and building. New and restored structures are everywhere; a Hiroshiman guide apologizes with old U.S. booster hyperbole: "Sorry, but these buildings were not here yesterday...
Died. Harry Bartow Hawes, 77, one-time Representative and later Senator from Missouri, co-author of the Hawes-Cutting (Philippine Independence) Act and a great booster for conservation of the wild game he loved to hunt; of a heart ailment; in Washington...