Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph Campbell, 54, recently Atomic Energy commissioner, became Comptroller General of the U.S., under a recess appointment pending Senate confirmation. For the post of Congress' watchdog over executive spending, Certified Public Accountant Campbell has high professional credentials. As Columbia University's assistant treasurer, he negotiated $50 million worth of wartime Government contracts (for atomic research, midshipman training, etc.). In 1949, under Columbia President Dwight Eisenhower, he was made university treasurer, and last year Ike appointed Campbell to the AEC. Campbell's confirmation as comptroller is in doubt. For eight months House and Senate Republicans have stalemated each...
Political Watchdog...
Woodruff is a Yale graduate and a member of the Committee of Seventy, a non-partisan group in Philadelphia which acts as a political watchdog over local politicians and tries to ensure honest elections...
...Court of Appeals denounced Hoxsey's claims for his cancer tonic as "false and misleading," ordered the district judge in Dallas to forbid interstate sales and shipment of Hoxsey's bottled wares. (Hoxsey and his lawyers delayed the ban for 15 months.) Said the A.M.A.'s watchdog bureau of investigation: "The whole thing reeks of fraud." The American Cancer Society was even more emphatic: "There is nothing in his . . . medicine which has the slightest effect on cancer, except, according to one investigator, to stimulate its growth slightly...
Main points: 1) interception and confiscation of any further arms shipments from Communist sources to Guatemala;-2) a five-nation watchdog commission to enforce the arms quarantine and to keep an eye on Guatemalan infiltration among its neighbors; and 3) no action for the present on economic sanctions that might bring hardship to Guatemala's people...