Word: watchdogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago the Senate Rules Committee's six-man Democratic majority slapped a few coats of whitewash over the Bobby Baker investigation with a final report that was supposed to end the case once and for all. But Delaware Republican John J. Williams, the tenacious Senate watchdog, pointed out a few splotches, and the Democrats were forced to try again. Last week they issued a second "final report" that is as white...
...retires, Pete Akers leaves a legacy of responsible investigative reporting that is still a yardstick in Chicago. "A newspaper has to be a watchdog," said he last week. "If the newspaper doesn't do it, who's going to? God! What would go on in a city like Chicago if the newspapers didn...
There was the faithful watchdog, barking and ready to bite. There was the burglar, doing his best to scurry away from the premises. There was the cop, who raised his pistol, took careful aim-and shot the watchdog...
...Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams, who has won a reputation as Capitol Hill's finest investigator of crockery in government, this was the way things seemed about to turn out last week. Williams was the watchdog. Bobby Baker was the burglar. The Senate's Democratic-controlled Rules Committee...
Nearly two years ago, Watchdog Williams rose on the Senate floor to charge that Bobby Baker, then the secretary for the Senate's Democratic Majority, was guilty of all sorts of shenanigans. The Rules Committee was assigned to investigate. Bobby Baker resigned and, for the most part, has since been seen only when taking the Fifth Amendment...