Word: evatt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press secretary to Australia's Labor Party leader, Herbert V. Evatt. young (26) ex-Reporter Fergan O'Sullivan achieved public and private recognition on the same day two months ago. In public, Australian newsmen voted to give him a silver mug for his help to the press during the Labor Party's unsuccessful election campaign this spring. In private, the government subpoenaed him to appear before an Australian royal commission investigating Soviet espionage...
...Indo-China might be as remote as Timbuktu." Yet Communism may have been the issue that kept Bob Menzies in power. The arrest of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov and the rescue of his wife (TIME, April 26) gave the Liberals a readymade chance to revive their hoary cry: that Evatt and his party are on the same side as the Reds. To his audiences, Menzies quoted a Communist document instructing the comrades "to deliver the main attack on the Menzies government." Said Menzies: "Now we know what side the Communists...
...iron Bob. The campaign was one of the dirtiest in Australia's 53 years of responsible self-government. Menzies, an able politician with a handsome, Warren G. Harding look, was not on speaking terms with his principal opponent, Herbert ("Doc") Evatt, the stocky, ambitious leader of Australian Labor. Both are from New South Wales, the sons of country shopkeepers, born in the same year (1894) and both able lawyers. But Evatt accused Menzies of being the tool of "trusts and combines," and Menzies fought back with charges of "disgraceful, shameful, mercenary bidding for votes...
...Seats. Desperately, the Labor Party fought to shake itself free from the unwelcome Communist leeches. Evatt was especially worried because his party depends on the large Catholic vote in Australia's big cities. "I tell Menzies and his agents," cried Evatt, in righteous anger, "that if they impute to me ... any sympathy with Communism, they are the vilest liars in the world...
Clasby's total offensive gain of 251 yards brings him over the thousand mark. He now has a net gain of 1,017 yards.A reverse off left tackle on a handoff from Dick Clasby netted six yards for wingback BRIAN REYNOLDS (32), before linebackers CLAY EVATT (40) and BOB RENN (38) brought him down. Quarterback GIL O'NEIL (21) is on the ground, while center BUDDY LEMAY (50) is coming up from behind...