Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years later, soon after the Teamsters' new headquarters went up in Washington, Beck won even more heartwarming tribute. At a testimonial dinner, Eric Johnston, watchdog for the motion pictures industry and past president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, turned to Beck with some unblushing doggerel: If I had a key to heaven And you didn't have...
...about his activities is true, he "is unfit to hold union office or any position of public trust." To guard against the occurrence of Teamster-type racketeering within his own United Auto Workers, Reuther announced plans to set up a board of prominent citizens to act as "a public watchdog" of his union's affairs...
...Alfred Friendly, managing editor of the Washington Post and Times Herald, in leading off a debate on the subject in the current Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "The responsibility that goes with the press's privileged position is that of serving as an objective chronicler, watchdog, critic, and independent or extralegal check," says he. By holding "at arm's length" all requests for staffers to serve on charitable, civic and government boards, the Post has found that reporters' "criticism is sharper, the praise is less inhibited and carries a greater impact. And the news...
...counsel, and Ike's own confidence in Humphrey radiates through the Cabinet. After the President's heart attack, Cabinet officers gravitated to the Treasury Secretary's office, there discussed ways and means of carrying on in the Chief's absence. As the Treasury's watchdog, Humphrey has tried to hold down Defense Department spending (which nonetheless stands at a new peacetime high of $38 billion in the 1958 budget) because he suspects that there is still a lot of waste and duplication. He mistrusts foreign aid; last week word got around that he had proposed...
...ditches to keep it from running all over." Hearing such dazzling reports, 100 Midwest investors recently plunked down $1,500,000 for shares in tiny Keystone Oil Co. As it turned out, Keystone was more talk than oil. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Government's watchdog over securities markets, filed charges against Chicago Promoter Harry G. Ames, 61, on 14 counts of mail fraud and failure to comply with SEC regulations. The Keystone case,, coming after the collapse of Bellanca stock (TIME, June 25) and indictment of Walter F. Tellier (TIME, May 7), pointed...