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Last spring Nebraska's Governor Robert B. Crosby roamed about his state for 9,000 miles, handing out 30,000 "Operaton Honesty" lapel buttons (TIME, March 15). His aim was to encourage full, honest returns on personal property for taxation, and thereby to lighten the heavy tax burden on real estate. Last week Crosby's own State Tax Department totted up the year's personal property assessments, and found that the patient had failed to respond to the operation. Total personal property reported by individual taxpayers was $433 million, 15% below last year. Looking over the county...
...Aim for the Future. Its chief argument against Lawyer Case is that his voting record in Congress (1945-53) was more Democratic than Republican. A group represented by Publicityman James P. Selvage, onetime pressagent for the National Association of Manufacturers (1933-38) and for the Republican National Committee (1943-44), has attacked Case as a darling of the Americans for Democratic Action and the C.I.O. By last week Republican State Chairman Samuel L. Bodine considered the attack serious enough to issue a point-by-point reply. Selvage's material, said Bodine, was a collection of "false statements, distortions...
...announced aim of the anti-Case forces is to drive him out of the race. A suggested replacement: former U.S. Representative Fred Hartley Jr. (of Taft-Hartley). But even the leaders of the movement know that they cannot force Case out. Their long-range aim: to make Case look weak so that they can seize control of the party if he loses...
...universities, clinics and at cocktail parties, Christianity is invoked. Juvenile delinquency? Broken homes? Neuroses? "The answer is a sound Chris tian upbringing." High divorce rate? Alcoholism? Disintegrating ethics? "We need a firm Christian morality." Is science getting out of hand? Are art and literature aimless? "Christianity gives the only aim." Communism? "Only Christianity can defeat a false religion." A more complex, highbrow version of this mood is expressed by British Historian Arnold Toynbee, who concludes his massive, ten-volume A Study of History* with the finding that the West can be saved from atomic war and utter downfall only...
...Taking aim on Ward's $700 million store chain and mail-order business, second biggest merchandising enterprise in the country, was a big job for any man . But Wolfson is used to big jobs. In 22 years he has parlayed a $5,000 investment into a $200 million industrial empire. Since 1949, he has bought control of the big Merritt-Chapman & Scott construction company, the Washington, D.C. street-transportation system, the New York Shipbuilding Corp., the 200-year-old paintmaking Devoe & Raynolds Co.. and a hatful of smaller concerns...