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...putting George Wallace in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The Labor Board is essential to union growth and to labor's power to bargain. It provides the only impartial supervision for the organizing elections that decide if a plant is to become union. Without a watchdog, unions could hardly win an election, for an employer's mere suggestion that if the union came in he might close down business is often enough to keep workers from voting for the union...
Toothless Watchdog. When one of Nader's sleuths sought information that he believed should be public property, FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon angrily ejected him from his office. John Schulz, 29, a fledgling lawyer from Yale who is the patriarch of Nader's neophytes, had requested a copy of a monthly FTC memorandum detailing complaints made to the commission. Dixon told him that the document was for FTC use only. After slamming his door on Schulz, Dixon threatened to bar all of Nader's investigators from the building-an unenforceable fiat, since the FTC building is legally...
...severe. They argue that the FTC's billing as guardian of consumer rights convicts the commission of misleading advertising-one of the principal sins it is supposed to eliminate. With only 1,170 employees and a paltry $16 million budget, the commission, they charge, is a toothless watchdog with a sorry record of too little protection too late...
...been run to earth in Red China, and this one had infiltrated the very heart of the state security apparatus. The story, as related by the party paper Wen Hui Pao, revolves around Lo Jui-ching, Mao's purged Minister of Public Security, and Sherlock Holmes, that "watchdog of the British bourgeoisie." Lowly Lo was so hooked on Holmes he instructed his agents to emulate Sherlock's "special abilities of detection, to do cloak-and-dagger and high-class special work, to live in unusual circumstances and to be exceptional men different from the common people." Now that...
...wounds or hemorrhage, it is credited with having saved the lives of countless accident victims and battle casualties. All too often, however, pooled plasma carries hepatitis virus, and its assorted proteins may cause severe allergic-type reactions. Last week the Division of Biologies Standards, the Federal Government's watchdog over all medicinal preparations containing blood fractions, took legal steps to halt shipment of plasma in interstate commerce, and thus drastically curtail...