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Senate Investigator. With a long memory for the waste of World War I, with a veteran's patriotism and a politician's shrewd eye for the main chance, Harry Truman organized the Senate investigating committee which soon bore his name. Overnight, he became the watchdog of the war effort, scourging shortages, prodding production, forcing the manufacturers, the Army & the Navy to toe the mark. By the summer of 1944, Harry Truman had shown that he was playing no political tricks with his committee. The record made him a Vice Presidential possibility...
...implication in Theater (TIME, March 12) is that Commissioner Paul Moss served a novitiate in censorship as a member of the National Board of Review, which you call "watchdog of cinemorality." For nearly 30 years the Board has been actively and outspokenly against censorship: its reviewers classify and recommend films on the basis of entertainment, not morals...
...produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice at censorship when LaGuardia appointed him License Commissioner in 1934. For the seven preceding years he had been a member of the National Board of Review, watchdog of cinemorality...
...status of the National Council of Resistance. Now that the underground fight is over, the C.N.R. is struggling to assume a new function. Its Communist steering group wants it to become a kind of council of state, a watchdog to keep France on the path of social reform. The Government wants C.N.R. energies to be absorbed by the Assembly. ¶ The tension between the Provisional Government and the Communists. By disbanding the leftist Patriotic Militia, Charles de Gaulle had openly clashed with them (TIME, Nov. 13). Now he offered them a sizable sop. By special decree his Government pardoned Maurice...
...asked daughter Katarina, who was acting as watchdog, if it was possible to get Sibelius outside before sunset. He was very willing. He walked in the woods and sat on a bench near a stone wall...