Word: boosting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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State insurance commissioner is in ordinary times a job much like the job of state bank commissioner: super-auditor to see that no one plays hocus-pocus with money that the public lays away for emergencies. The March bank holiday, which boosted bank commissioners to jobs approaching economic dictatorships, gave a similar boost to insurance commissioners. Runs on banks led to runs on life insurance companies (by policyholders who wanted to borrow on their policies or surrender them for cash) and runs on insurance companies led to an insurance half-holiday: death and disability benefits, matured endowments and annuities continued...
...main for weeks to build up Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Walker's gauche but apparently honest successor, into a respected character for next November's municipal election. Upon his success depends Tammany's grip on the city government. Last week Tammany received an unexpected boost when Judge Seabury told the Yale Daily News...
Secretary of Commerce. Daniel Calhoun Roper, 65, was a forgotten man of the Wilson Administration until Mr. Roosevelt unexpectedly boosted him into the Cabinet. Responsible for the boost was William Gibbs McAdoo whose Madison Square Garden fight for the Presidency Mr. Roper managed. The Roper appointment infuriates the Al Smith faction of the party, for in 1928 the new Secretary of Commerce became a Hoovercrat by default when he sailed for Europe. Loose-jowled, bespectacled old "Dan" Roper is nominally from South Carolina, where he was born and where he still has two cotton plantations. But for the last...
...death of Boston's youthful heavy-weight contender has called forth from the press an inevitable gush. Mawkish sentiment has become a characteristic of American journalistic expression; it helps to boost circulation. But beneath the columns of effusion one senses an occasional spark of sincerity. Schaaf played the game ably, cleanly, modestly...
Hearstpapers. advertisements, handbills, letters, posters were spreading these slogans throughout the land last week. Organizations to boost the "Buy American" idea, adapted from the "Buy British" movement-(see p. 23), have been mushrooming for the last half year. When the Saturday Evening Post featured an exhortation by Samuel George Blythe to "Buy American" early last month, the movement assumed nation-wide proportions. And last week in its behalf William Randolph Hearst turned on his big publicity machine...