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King's Watchdog. Coke climbed fast-recorder of Norwich, M.P. for Aldeburgh, solicitor general and recorder of London, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 Elizabeth raised him to be Her Majesty's Attorney General. In this post Coke's success was so great (he prosecuted both the traitorous Earl of Essex and the wretched Guy Fawkes) that James I made him Chief Justice of the Common Pleas-and overnight Coke became another...
...vessel over to a charitable foundation, as planned. There was hope of fresh cash from rubbernecking admissions during a proposed stay in New York Harbor, but even here the long arm of Old World oppression threatened the hardy ship: back in England, Tugboat Owner Ernest Lister instructed his solicitor to have the Mayflower II seized for unpaid towing fees...
...Arthur was a solicitor and civil-service administrator before he took over Rugby nine years ago. Asked about his views on rock 'n' roll, he said: "I know nothing about [it], but I'm prepared to study." As to the Third Program cuts, he had reassuring words: "I was somewhat appalled when I heard the BBC were cutting it down. But having gone into the matter, I find the change may not be as catastrophic as was first supposed." The BBC stands ready to remedy its new boss's lack of a TV set when...
...Combined Charities Drive, the Council has announced. The Council has also approved the PBH nominations of Stanley B. Lyss '58, of Kirkland House and Clayton, Mo., chairman of the PBH drives committee, and Wilmer St. C. Cody, Jr. '59, of Winthrop House and Mobile, Ala., an entry solicitor, as his assistants...
...steam roller on a highway construction job. (One of the goons gave his left-over sugar to a girl friend for household use.) Soft-spoken William E. Cochran, a construction foreman for a nonunion firm, told how the threats of union goons drove him to the Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned out, was also lawyer for the building trades' unions. Cochran said he was warned that if union members committed any crime, such as pushing over a wall of Cochran's new house, City Solicitor McNulty would defend the unionists. And in fact...