Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then recoiled before brisk U.N. action. A few months from now when things quiet down, they will start to probe again." A possible way to forestall future Red probes and one that may be recommended to the Security Council by the fact finders: establishment of a permanent U.N. watchdog team in Laos...
Edward A. Segal '60, a member of the exploratory group, described the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy--as it will be named--as "a continuous watchdog on programs which the Administration is putting into effect...
...appropriations bill for fiscal 1960: no funds could be used for contracts with any company that had hired general officers who had been on active duty within the last five years. The amendment was defeated by only a narrow (147 to 125) margin. Shortly after, the House's watchdog Armed Services Investigation Subcommittee fired off 840 questionnaires to 100 leading contractors and 200 individuals, asking whether any business had been "solicited"' by former military men. Said Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who promises a full-scale investigation early next month: "The big names better come to protect themselves...
...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...