Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could object to your reviewing it in your columns, but to approve such outrageous trash and boost it as The Cream! No wonder bolshevism is popular! Please cross my name off your list...
Bernarr Macfadden's New York Evening ("Porno") Graphic has been publishing a series of articles on the Negro, spiced up with intimate glimpses of Harlem and faked pictures of lynchings. Obviously, such material was intended to boost the Negro circulation of the Graphic. But the sheetlet, in its exuberance for the sensational, went too far and stepped on the toes of many a Negro when it set about to flay Booker Taliaferro Washington. Said the Graphic: "There are not lacking thousands of intelligent Negroes who believe that Booker T. Washington, consciously or unwittingly, betrayed his color and his kind...
...employes, clerks and telegraphers, have in recent months asked for pay increases which in a few cases were granted by employers. Other cases are to appear before the Mediation Board. There remain the engineers and firemen. Eastern firemen want $1 a day more; Southeastern engineers a general 15% boost. They have made claims on individual employers, but have not yet come to discussion. Canadian railroaders threatened a strike last week. But the smoothness of the U. S. arbitration made them pause for further arguments...
...Then boost the fair jitneys forever...
...Owing to a dearth of responsible white citizens in Alaska, the President is considering making appointments to Federal offices in that territory from among the citizens of the 48 United States. Enterprising statisticians announced that such action would boost the population of Alaska nine per cent...