Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blueblooded Watchdog. Strangely, the man who exposed the scandals was a fellow Democrat, a onetime protege of Dilworth's and an official in his administration. Like the mayor, City Controller Alexander Hemphill, 40, is a well-heeled blueblood with an Ivy League background (University of Pennsylvania '43). The father of seven, he is the godfather of a Dilworth grandchild, and a fancier of Utrillo and Rouault prints. He also takes his watchdog job as city controller seriously -so seriously that when he decided to run for election in 1957, Dilworth tried to persuade him to withdraw. Says Hemphill...
...came to Geneva determined to press for a "truly neutral and independent Laos" and some sort of watchdog commission to prevent any outside interference. As the conference began, there wasn't a ghost of a chance of getting anything like that. Some cynics suggested that the best thing the Kennedy Administration could hope for was a protracted, tedious session that would disguise with boredom what was happening to Laos. Secretary of State Dean Rusk plans to turn the whole chore over to Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman as soon as possible and head for home...
Morton already had launched a vigorous program for this year's local elections, with his eye especially on the Governors' chairs in New Jersey and Virginia. He had started a national registration drive and set up a watchdog committee to deal with election frauds. He was determined, too, to go after the big-city vote-"our Achilles heel in the last election"-and nominated successful big-city Republicans to show...
...rude blow to Cecil Harmsworth King, 60, head of the Daily Mirror group, a gigantic newspaper-magazine combine (total circulation: more than 16 million) that includes two of Britain's leading popular papers: the sex-salted Daily Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial, one of three newspapers that the watchdog Press Council last year called "a disgrace to British journalism." The other two: the People and News of the World...
...books (the latest: last year's The Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age). At Rand, Hitch has been in charge of thinking out the economic implications of cold war military problems and weapons systems-an assignment so close to his new job as Defense's financial watchdog that he says, "It won't be a change of work but a change of responsibility...