Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford's anomalous candidacy appeared to have "flivvered." A Ford-for-President group was to have met last week at Dearborn, but at the last minute Mr. Ford vetoed the meeting. Nevertheless a few 'delegates assembled, decided to boost Ford in spite of his wishes, and planned a Convention late in January to nominate him on a third party ticket...
...forms which editorial decrees sometimes take is a platform or an idea for the community. Recently The New York World undertook to boost Manhattan as the city for the next Democratic Convention. If the Democratic Convention goes to Manhattan, it will be a feather in the World's cap and its editor will remind the residents of his principality that he surveys all and is monarch of all he surveys. But the World's project is insignificant compared with the attempt of the editorial monarch of The Christian Science Monitor...
With 35,000 seats already sold for this afternoons football game with Tufts, the Harvard Athletic Association expects a brisk sale of seats this morning which will boost the total number of admissions over the 40,000 mark...
...Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair, House and Garden, Le Costume Royal, is not a publisher of newspapers. In that respect William Randolph Hearst has the better of him. Mr. Hearst, ever watchful for financial gain, makes use of his newspapers to boost his magazines. To this Mr. Nast expresses no objection. But when Mr. Hearst's press undertook to puff Hearst magazines at Mr. Nast's expense, Mr. Nast rose in dignified wrath...
...Coolidge-for-President Club of Chicago which sought to boost his candidacy for 1924: " I have given no thought to the matter to which you refer, and I am merely doing what I can to take up the burdens of my office. . . . I am sure you will understand that if I ask your help to this end, rather than in the way you have suggested, it shows no lack of appreciation of your kindness...