Word: affluents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeal is not entirely limited to the lower middle class, however. Wallace draws some support from propertied and professional people. Most of his contributions, officially estimated at $70,000 a day, come in small bills at rallies, at $25-a-plate dinners, and in checks through the mail. Affluent backers pay $500 and up to join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million...
...with conservatism the dominant motif. Regardless of his warm reception in North Carolina, Humphrey has lost even some moderate Southern leaders who helped nominate him. The urban machines in the North have been decaying for years, and Johnson has done nothing to reverse that trend. Working-class families grown affluent because of general prosperity are defecting to Nixon and Wallace. Negroes, while generally loyal, are distracted by the anti-Establishment mood of their militant elements and by grief over the loss of their favorite, Robert Kennedy. Some black voters may sit out the election...
...ominous symptoms of decay. Though downtown Los Angeles remained a stronghold for banking, finance, oil and insurance, jobs in other fields followed people to the suburbs. Vacancy rates soared in dingy old office buildings. Sleazy stores and bad restaurants proliferated. Forsaken by many retailers, streets that once bustled with affluent shoppers became a depressing arena for bums and beggars, vice and crime...
...economic terms to that meted out to the petty thief. To which the responsible businessman is apt to reply that he spends a great deal of time and effort satisfying government laws and regulations, while the common criminal goes lightly punished -or so it sometimes seems to the embittered affluent citizen...
...been much of a problem for many federal court clerks. They have simply gone to "key men" in big cities-the head of the Kiwanis, perhaps, or the Chamber of Commerce boss-and asked for suggestions. Not surprisingly, those who have been recommended have usually been white and comparatively affluent. Judges have tended to approve the system because the lists produced educated juries...