Word: watchdog
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...Comptroller-General Joseph Campbell, Congress' fiscal watchdog, declared that Summerfield's Post Office Department had violated the spirit of the law. The law: spending must be apportioned over the full year in such a way that neither large-scale supplemental appropriations nor curtailment of services is necessary...
Melvin Rothbaum, instructor in Economics, who assists in a course on Public Policy and Labor, noted that, under existing laws, unions file many reports with the Secretary of Labor, "but nobody ever looks at them." He said that inter-union "watchdog committees" might provide better regulation of union affairs than increased government responsibility...
...years later, soon after the Teamsters' new headquarters went up in Washington, Beck won even more heartwarming tribute. At a testimonial dinner, Eric Johnston, watchdog for the motion pictures industry and past president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, turned to Beck with some unblushing doggerel: If I had a key to heaven And you didn't have...
...about his activities is true, he "is unfit to hold union office or any position of public trust." To guard against the occurrence of Teamster-type racketeering within his own United Auto Workers, Reuther announced plans to set up a board of prominent citizens to act as "a public watchdog" of his union's affairs...
...Alfred Friendly, managing editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald, in leading off a debate on the subject in the current Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "The responsibility that goes with the press's privileged position is that of serving as an objective chronicler, watchdog, critic, and independent or extralegal check," says he. By holding "at arm's length" all requests for staffers to serve on charitable, civic and government boards, the Post has found that reporters' "criticism is sharper, the praise is less inhibited and carries a greater impact. And the news...