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...Conservative from the minute he entered state politics in 1928, he once explained: "I have a respect for the rights of the top dog [and] no use for the foolish doctrine of equality between the active and the idle, the intelligent and the dull, the frugal and the improvident." Became Attorney General almost the day he was elected to the federal Parliament and by 1939 was Prime Minister, taking Australia into the war at Britain's side. But when the Laborites forced him out in 1941, Australians shed no tears. "The trouble with Bob Menzies," said one politician...
...Circuit Judge Charles Hanson ruled that a 1955 law against establishing new communal farms or expanding old ones (TIME, June 4) is "too vague, indefinite and uncertain to be enforceable." The law as enacted by the South Dakota legislature is an admitted effort to check the growth of the frugal, efficient Hutterite cooperatives...
...Rebel. No such comment could be made about Fifteen. Fifteen is the eternal sophomore, both wise and foolish at once. He digs at his scalp, gouges pimples, toys maddeningly with the silverware at meals. His voice is often inaudible, and he seems | so frugal with his energies that parents and teachers come to the conclusion that he is lazy. He is secretive and hates anyone to intrude into his life too much. He has fantasies of violence and revenge. As much as at any time in his life, he needs patience and understanding...
...Except for two years (1948-50) he has had to deal with a Republican legislature that has choked off a good many Lausche plans for Ohio. But the governor is undeniably conservative, and his relations with the legislature have been generally amicable. The G.O.P. has found Lausche's frugal fiscal policies especially gratifying. Although its revenue has nearly trebled (from $396 million to $1,019,759,404). Ohio has not voted a general tax increase during the Lausche decade. The governor runs the state on a tight annual budget, usually reports a tidy surplus in the treasury each year...
Clem and Leone agreed to run the campaign together for a frugal $40,000. Bearing down on the farmers and making heavy use of small-town newspapers and the relatively uncultivated medium of radio, they defeated the referendum handily. The astonished Pacific Gas & Electric Co. promptly signed Whitaker & Baxter to an annual retainer, has employed them ever since. Incorporating themselves as Campaigns, Inc., they became the acknowledged originals in the field of political public relations (they are still the world's only permanent specialists in the field). In 1938 they made it a full-time partnership by getting married...