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Last week, after Hubble and a reporter-photographer team drove 347 miles to investigate a 60-year-old woman's complaint that she had been bilked out of her $22.40 down payment on a prefabricated garage, a Pictorial story reported that a "Pic Watchdog" had tracked down the promoter, extracted refunds for 20 other victims. Another Pictorial expose, in last week's London edition, was based on readers' complaints that they had been shortchanged on a two-week tour of Italy promoted by a former Indian army brigadier named Jalawar Singh Garewal. The Page One headline: BALONEY...
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...
...longer the "King's watchdog," he became the watchdog of the common law. The historic Coke maxims began to roll out. "No man may be punished for his thoughts"; "And if every man should be examined upon his oath, what opinion he holdeth concerning any point of religion, he is not bound to answer . . ."; "When an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law will. . . adjudge such Act to be void...
Nevertheless, the committee, urging that the policing of lobbyists and of campaign spending be placed in the hands of the congressional watchdog, the U.S. Comptroller General, recommended two new pieces of legislation...
...said: "Today they speak of criminals, perhaps tomorrow one will speak of holy criminals." On Sept. 25, 1953, the secret police came to take him away. Cardinal Wyszynski had still one more touch of consideration for the enemy: when one of the arresting officers was bitten by a watchdog, the cardinal insisted on personally bandaging his hand...