Word: affluent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...breeding down to a population of field hands," says one of the many white merchants who are beginning to wonder whether the boycott might backfire. As the more affluent and educated Negroes pull out, the county's Negro population is becoming poorer and more restless. The whites are left with a heavier tax burden to carry-and a greater fear as well. Says one Negro leader: "There wouldn't have been a bloc vote, except the white people chose to make an issue of it. Now there will be a bloc...
...overhauled since 1929. Specifically he called for repeal of Clause Four, which calls for "common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange." Nationalization had been tried by the Labor Party itself when it was in power and had proved no panacea. In the working man's affluent world of "the telly, the frig and the car," Gaitskell argued, the old slogans had no appeal...
...unmistakable liberal such as Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. But Kennedy's stands and voting records on most domestic issues are not widely different from Humphrey's. Kennedy's closest advisers on domestic policies, including Harvard Professors Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith, tend to be liberals of the Americans for Democratic Action camp. Kennedy falls easily into such sweeping A.D.A.-type rhetoric as "17 million Americans go to bed hungry every night." Following the liberal line that the U.S. economy is not growing fast enough...
...California, Lawyer Murray Chotiner, campaign manager for Dick Nixon in races for Congress, the Senate and the vice-presidency, failed in his own first race for the Republican congressional nomination in the affluent 16th (Beverly Hills) District. After 1956 charges that he had been an influence peddler around Washington, Murray Chotiner abruptly retired from Nixon's life, campaigned for Congress this spring with glacial silence from Nixon, lost to a soft-hitting wealthy oilman, Alphonzo E. Bell...
...Affluent Revolution. In the first day of the conference, the whole carefully planned agenda on the three principal issues (see below) went out the window. But the big fact of the summit meeting -at least at the start-was that the West was confronted not by a change in the issues but an apparent change in Khrushchev. The Khrushchev they had expected to meet was committed to "peaceful coexistence" at least in name. With his rejection of Stalinism, he had staked out his place in Communist history as the exponent of the affluent revolution, of a Soviet society no longer...