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Botchdog. In Brockton, Mass., Joseph Freeman's watchdog snoozed through a burglary, awoke in time to drive away investigating policemen...
...chief value of both the Commission and its watchdog Council may be psychological. In that case they will serve as an extension of the same role U.S. criticism has already played: keeping MacArthur on his toes. The Commission will sit permanently in Washington, and its policy directives will presumably be as broad as those which MacArthur has hitherto received...
Night Out. In Berkeley, Calif., John R. Culver & bride were forced to spend their wedding night with in-laws when a neighbor's overzealous watchdog barred them from their honeymoon cottage...
...sign up. In his long role as guardian, squat, flint-hard, bow-tied Mr. Bennett (he never wore a four-in-hand for fear someone would use it to choke him) was shot at, beaten up and stoned (see cut). He took all this as part of his watchdog job, relaxed by painting in oils, never questioned anything which Mr. Ford wanted done. He saw no reason to question. Said he: "I believe in the things that Mr. Ford wants done. Believing in them has made them easier...
Chicagoans have learned to put up with many a civic stench, but by September, 1944, some of them could no longer stand the smell of their public-school administration. They called on the National Education Association, lumbering but potent watchdog representing some 900,000 U.S. teachers, to investigate. But when N.E.A.'s investigators appeared, they were brusquely told to devote themselves instead "to making some contribution to the war and defense effort." For the first time anywhere, N.E.A. was barred from public school records and classes...