Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virginia's Harry Byrd, 75, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been ailing for weeks, and Washingtonians freely surmised that the old budget watchdog had lost not only his bite, but also his bark. Little did they know. Last week Byrd came out roaring like a lion after reading in the Washington Post that "Budget Director Kermit Gordon told a congressional committee yesterday that a balanced budget would lead to increased unemployment, higher taxes and a general economic decline...
Died. Hugh Fulton, 54, dogged chief counsel for Harry S. Truman's World War II watchdog committee on graft in defense contracts, a close Truman friend and speechwriter in the 1944 vice-presidential campaign, after which he returned to private practice; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
...bureaucracy*- crack New Zealanders, is "like boring a hole through treacle." Now the nation is considering a solution to government regimentation and pettifoggery. Last week, after a year of deliberation, New Zealand was pressing ahead with plans for a new, independent government official who will act as a civic watchdog in much the same fashion as the famed, 153-year-old Swedish institution known as the ombudsman, or grievance...
...Milo meets a Watchdog job is to prevent people from time (Long ago, the general was: "if there's so much of it, be very valuable," and the thus fell into disrepute.), a Bee (b-e-e-), a Humbug whom loves, and a flock of who bring cliches to life. Juster real respect for the hackneyed he likes to dust it off and you of the time when it shone and really enriched...
...sudden searches and unreasonable arrests; he gets a lawyer and they have to stop. They also have to stop guarding the hero's house when the vil lain's lawyer threatens to tell the taxpayers how their money is being spent. Next day the hero's watchdog is poisoned. The chief of police advises him to hire a private detective: "It's a terrible thing to say, but there's nothing more we can do." While the detective tails the villain, the villain tails the hero and his family - and skillfully accelerates the terror...