Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Lyndon Johnson's watchdog committee was looking into reports that shippers who had chartered ships from the Maritime Board were making as much as $1,000 a day a ship, hauling supplies to Korea and cargoes to Europe for the Mutual Security Agency...
...thieves apparently entered through a back door, tossed a ham hock from the refrigerator to a watchdog (he was still gnawing contentedly when the police arrived), greased the bottom of the safe with a cake of soap and dragged it away. The money included two $10,000 and 200 $1,000 bills. At week's end, the cops were baffled...
...playing the market. In 1949, when he was worth $250,000, he felt he "could afford" to go back to SEC as a commissioner. But the job wasn't big enough to keep him busy. So in 1950 he became chief counsel to Senator Lyndon Johnson's "watchdog" committee on preparedness, even though he had to do most of his work at night. He was largely responsible for the committee's reports on wasteful military spending...
Messages from Exile. Director of the underground's theory and watchdog of its discipline was, the prosecution charged, a fairly successful Athens doctor. Also on trial last week was a socialite lawyer charged with being the party's finance boss. A well-known Athenian actress was accused as one of several couriers who supplied the Communists with funds smuggled from Paris. Captured messages, many of them signed by exiled Greek Red Boss Nicholas Zachariades, showed that the Communists, outlawed as a party since 1947, had manipulated the United Democratic Left, a supposedly non-Communist political party which attracted...
...very least, they meant a subsidy to some holders of defense contracts. Southerners complained that Wilson's "distressed industry" plan might wipe out the booming South's competitive edge over New England textiles. Cried South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, whose Senate-House "watchdog" committee launched an immediate inquiry: "I am not going to sit here and preside over the liquidation of the Southern textile industry." Added South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes: "It's nothing but a subsidy to reward the imprudent manager...