Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Robert Walter Scott McLeod, 47. State Department security watchdog under John Foster Dulles and Ambassador to Ireland from 1957 to 1961, an ex-FBI man who forced the dismissal or resignation of 300 State Department employees in his first year at Foggy Bottom, ultimately became so much of a storm center that Dwight Eisenhower sent him off to Dublin after a bitter Senate confirmation debate in which McLeod was denounced by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark as a "symbol of the witch hunter" of the McCarthy era; of a heart attack; in Concord...
...Authority for the Federal Trade Commission, watchdog of advertising, to issue restraining orders directly instead of having to go through the courts...
...REGULATORY AGENCIES. A major source of the business community's sense of harassment is the new aggressiveness of the watchdog agencies. Some railroadmen see nationalization coming on the heels of the Interstate Commerce Commission's recommendation for federal subsidies for passenger lines. New Chairman Joseph C. Swidler of the Federal Power Com mission, describing himself as "consumer-minded," says that he will cut natural-gas rates even if customers do not petition for reduction. Groans one Western corporation chief about the choice of Careerist Paul Dixon to head the Federal Trade Commission: "Kennedy appointed a career prosecutor...
Other action last week on Capitol Hill: ¶ After easily beating off attempts to tie in new civil rights legislation, the Senate voted 70-19 to extend for another two years the life of the watchdog Civil Rights Commission...
...uniform accounting procedures, which was instituted by the National Health Council long before the Rockefeller Committee was formed. My criticism of the Rockefeller report was that it undermined the right of voluntary association by suggesting that the American people need a "Big Brother" in the form of a watchdog commission. I resent, as do our millions of volunteers, implications that we have not served our stewardship well...