Word: watchdog
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...sooner did the light of publicity shine than it was shut off again by Democratic Territorial Senator John Duarte, chairman of the watchdog Accounts Committee, who ordered a blackout on senate equipment inventories. Cried Republican Senator Wilfred Tsukiyama, a candidate for the U.S. House: "I didn't even get a pen. Mine was stolen." Said Democratic Senator Sakai Takahashi: "Somebody else grabbed my desk set." Said Senator Oren E. Long, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate: "Darn it all, my gavel was stolen...
...discomfited legislators were scrambling hard at returning their souvenirs. Six cartons containing desk lamps and electric fans were dumped at night in the driveway of an investigator for Hawaii's attorney general, who had been ordered by Republican Governor William F. Quinn to investigate the scandal. And Senate Watchdog Duarte himself accounted for one of the rugs; it had, he said, been mistakenly shipped to his home on the island of Maui, along with 852 Ibs. of office furnishings he had purchased at discount rates from a firm renting equipment to the senate. Still missing: $10,000 worth...
...body of the report deals with four specific complaints which have been levelled at the HSA, and admits that three of them are justified. Nevertheless, the authors of the report conclude that the HSA "is fulfilling its self-appointed task." Hopefully, the Council watchdog appointed to keep a close eye on the HSA will prove to be one valuable result of the report, and will keep the Student Body informed of the doings of the HSA, but the report offers no other solutions to few abuses whose existence it admits...
Plant. In Brooklyn, when two men robbed James Johnson's grocery of $50, Johnson's watchdog did not make a move, but when Police Captain Frederick Kowsky arrived to investigate...
...zeal seems ill-considered. The informal suggestion from one of the committee members last year that a filtering committee be established to prevent any future appointments of communists, or whomever is adjudged objectionable, is of course pernicious. Appointments to the faculty are amply reviewed as it is, and a watchdog committee would quickly extend its baleful influence. The Veritas Foundation, which considers that Harvard graduates at present are taught by a predominantly "leftist" faculty, would presumably try to correct this imbalance. Any such attempt would jeopardize the freedom this University has maintained for its faculty members--one of its finest...