Word: boosterism
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...rationing is what really hurt us," wailed Tournament Manager Fred Corcoran, longtime booster of the Professional Golfers Association. "We couldn't guarantee that our leading players would appear at any set place or time and clubs are reluctant to schedule tournaments under those conditions...
...Jovial, snow-thatched Albert J. McCray, 71, was not only a Townsendite but a Ham 'n' Egger ("Oh, boy, was I a booster for that!"). Now he runs a drill press at the Douglas plant, earns $51 a week with Sunday overtime, complains only that his foreman refuses to let him work every Sunday. Says Albert McCray: "I haven't been to the club there in some little bit. I'd rather have a job than a pension any time. Why, I'm making better than $175 a month here, more money than I ever...
...also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
...Governor Carr, 54, is a bright new phenomenon in Rocky Mountain politics. Able, courageous, independent, he was a pre-Philadelphia booster for Wendell Willkie, supported President Roosevelt's foreign policy while thwacking the New Deal on domestic issues, proved his statesmanship and urbanity by his handling of the vexatious Japanese evacuation problem. Since he had to step out of the Governorship to run against Johnson, November's election will either raise Ralph Carr to new national prominence or throw him into temporary eclipse...
...Cross George Washington Club-for enlisted men and guests only -is the biggest morale booster. This attractive remodeled hotel has been packed since its opening. Boys use the big lounge, crowd four beds to a room every weekend, fill barbershop, showers, game room, attend gala Saturday night dances with Red Cross-invited WAAFs, WRENs, ETATs, get messages, mail, write names on little flags to stick into their home base on a special map of the U.S. (so that local boys can get together), get free tickets, sign up for popular sightseeing tours, eat doughnuts and waffles, drink real coffee, cokes...