Word: public
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would assume from the tenor of your article that 53.3% of the voting public of L.A. is racist. The precinct analysis reveals that over 95% of the Negroes in predominantly Negro areas voted Bradley while the Whitey areas voted Yorty by only 65%. Who are the racists? STUART VON Los Angeles...
...context in which it appeared, the quotation implied that I favor continued political patronage in the Post Office Department and had argued at the White House against President Nixon's proposal to convert the present postal system into a public corporation...
...facts are that I have repeatedly called for removal of politics from the Post Office Department in the past and that I issued a strong statement in support of the President's public postal corporation on the day Mr. Nixon sent his postal-reform message to the Congress...
Besides that, it would be desirable to open the "exchange community" to the new ideas that new brokerage owners would bring, and to let the public share in Wall Street's profits. Donaldson, Lufkin is threatening to leave the exchange if the constitution is not changed to let it go public (TIME, May 30). Haack seems sympathetic, but he predicts that a forthcoming vote on public ownership among the exchange's seat holders will be "close...
...housing corporation will be headed by Chairman Carter Burgess, former head of American Machine & Foundry, and President Ray Watt, a large West Coast builder. It aims to raise $50 million from large corporations and banks and a public sale of stock. Then it will invest most of the money in a number of partnerships of local builders and small investors. For every dollar that the corporation puts up, each local partnership will put up about three dollars. In addition, these partnerships will get FHA-insured loans under the National Housing Act for up to 90% of the costs of construction...