Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King's Watchdog. Coke climbed fast-recorder of Norwich, M.P. for Aldeburgh, solicitor general and recorder of London, Speaker of the House of Commons. In 1594 Elizabeth raised him to be Her Majesty's Attorney General. In this post Coke's success was so great (he prosecuted both the traitorous Earl of Essex and the wretched Guy Fawkes) that James I made him Chief Justice of the Common Pleas-and overnight Coke became another...
Nevertheless, the committee, urging that the policing of lobbyists and of campaign spending be placed in the hands of the congressional watchdog, the U.S. Comptroller General, recommended two new pieces of legislation...
...said: "Today they speak of criminals, perhaps tomorrow one will speak of holy criminals." On Sept. 25, 1953, the secret police came to take him away. Cardinal Wyszynski had still one more touch of consideration for the enemy: when one of the arresting officers was bitten by a watchdog, the cardinal insisted on personally bandaging his hand...
...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...