Word: boosterism
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...subscriber to and booster for your valued publication, wishes to compliment you on the thoroughness with which you are covering Mr. Hoover's trip. The maps visualizing the route, and the brief interesting information regarding the countries visited is very refreshing to the average man, who is not so well informed about South American countries...
...until the April 9 issue of TIME, I was an ardent reader of and booster for the publication; but since reading that issue containing the wholly unnecessary account of the unfortunate tangle in which the two young sons of Ex-Governor Cox found themselves with the New York Police Department, I am "off" your magazine forever, unless appropriate amends are made...
...England is a backward, decadent section. Its factories are out-of-date; its inhabitants are idlers; its ideas have not yet emerged from the sperm-oil days. These words (or words less polite) have been spoken and applauded many times at booster meetings of towns to the West and to the South. When the Chicago Tribune castigates "the effete East," it usually refers to New England...
...Promoter. Ambitious to be Vice President, but doubtless open to persuasion, is Jesse Holman Jones of Texas. For four years he has been the Democratic Santa Claus. He is an astute banker and a big-scale builder as well as a booster. He can point with pride to having served with the late Henry P. Davison at International Red Cross conferences, representing President Wilson...
...detached gentility, he saw to it that "the hay was got in from the golf links before a thunder shower, dances were run off with no deficit, horses were not frightened "by steamrollers. . . ." An ebullient Rotary had begun to suspect him of not being a big enough booster. But such heresy was momentarily dispelled after the World War when he invited the U. S. Government to fill his family-memorial hospital with convalescing aviators, who were able to play golf and give the town girls a treat...