Word: bootstrapping
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Beedle Smith was a bootstrap soldier. He rose to the top of his profession without ever attending either West Point or college. As a small boy in Indianapolis, he listened to the vivid recollections of his German grandfather, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, and decided he would become a soldier. At 15, he joined the Indiana National Guard. When World War I began in Europe, Sergeant Major Smith reluctantly refused a commission in the Regular Army because his family could not afford to buy his uniforms. But after the U.S. entered the war, he won his shoulder bars...
...national income is spread among all classes of people. This achievement owes much to Puerto Rico's celebrated Governor Muñoz Marin; it also owes much to a tough-minded young businessman named José Teodoro Moscoso, who was chosen to run Muñoz' Operation Bootstrap in 1942. The choice was a natural: in the ten years after he graduated from the University of Michigan, Ted Moscoso had accomplished much. He entered his family's wholesale drug business, helped build it to thriving good health. Then he joined the city of Ponce's Housing...
...point of the unanimous decision by the three judges: Since the Government had not tried to prove that the meeting, in and of itself, violated any state or federal law, how could it prove that the defendants had conspired to lie about their presence there? The Government's "bootstrap" handling of the case, wrote Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard, was wholly unwarranted. "Bad as many of these alleged conspirators may be, their conviction for a crime which the Government could not prove . . . and on evidence which a jury could not properly assess, cannot be permitted to stand...
...College is designed specifically to serve poor students from the Southern Appalachians (90% of enrollment). Searching for talent amidst poverty, Berea charges no tuition (students earn their keep), is so successful of its kind that educators flock to it from underdeveloped countries in hopes of picking up ideas. Another bootstrap operation is Oklahoma City University, which is remodeling itself completely after M.I.T. (TIME, June 6). At Texas' Austin College, a hefty new Ford grant is aimed at building the school into a Southwestern Amherst or Swarthmore...
...author's pride in commonwealth, which since 1952 has given Puerto Rico (pop. 2,400,000) local self-government plus exemption from Federal income taxes. He fears that statehood would be fatal both to the Hispanic culture he prizes and to Operation Bootstrap, an industrialization program fostered by tax abatement. But with the entry of Alaska and Hawaii into the Union, Muñoz had to give way to growing statehood sentiment, some of it within his own Popular Democratic Party...