Word: boosterous
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...American Iron & Steel Institute, the Institute of American Meat Packers. Less famed are the Better Bedding Alliance of America, the Corset & Brassiere Association of America, the Hickory Handle Association. The aim of each is to promote the interests of its members: soapmen know that the Cleanliness Institute is a booster for more washing. But sometimes .this mutual help goes further than advertising. And for this reason last week many an institute fearfully watched the affairs of the Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute which had drawn upon its own roof, which shelters 41 members, the fire of Federal prosecution...
...Curtis-for-President Club; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Though he never held public office, many a Washington politician knew well his booming voice, his ten-gallon hat. Major Maurice Campbell, onetime New York Prohibition administrator, stated last fall in the New York World that Curtis-booster Glaser had tried to get him to approve dubious whiskey permits, that the name of Vice President Curtis had been used (TIME, Sept. 22). Last month he was indicted in Chattanooga, Tenn. for importing 95%-alcoholic "sheep...
William Randolph Hearst made known that the "Hearst-For-President"' buttons which popped up in Los Angeles during his recent visit there had been distributed by one S. F. Champion Jr. on the latter's own initiative. Said Publisher Hearst in a letter to Booster Champion: "1) I have had my day in politics . . . not a very long day nor a very brilliant day,† but sufficient to convince me that my best opportunity for achievement was . . . not in holding office. 2) I am 67 years old. 3) A politician can never tell how much of his sacrifice...
...Banks & Co., important Southern banking group, is headed by Aloysius Burton Banks, 62, Arkansas booster reputed to be worth $5,000,000. He is also a big factor in the insurance field. He lives in Little Rock in modest luxury, takes long walks at dusk, alone. Last week genial Mr. Banks took few walks, showed the strain of long conferences. He hoped that eventually his chain could be rewelded...
...present air conditioning is expensive unless a whole building is equipped when first built. Some tycoons, however, have the air in their offices conditioned (Orlando Franklin Weber, president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., is a stout booster for "manufactured weather") and the cost is within the reach of homeowners. Ambition of the air-conditioners is "to make a building not cooled in summer as obsolete as one not heated in winter...