Word: watchdogging
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...army marshals, made him a Deputy Minister of Defense. After Beria's arrest, Zhukov took his seat on the Communist Central Committee. In last week's shuffle, Zhukov at last reached a position of first rank-though still lower than that of the party's watchdog of the military, Marshal Bulganin...
...spoilers reacted. They argued that the WEU bill had been amended since last week and that a new bill had to be drafted. The Foreign Affairs Committee rejected Mendes' draft. He drafted another version, carrying an amendment by Gaullist Leon Noel, onetime ambassador to Poland, to create a watchdog committee on German rearmament. That made it a new bill, the spoilers declared, and it must have a new vote of confidence, which requires 24 hours delay. Wearily, Mendes had to yield...
...Joseph Campbell, 54, recently Atomic Energy commissioner, became Comptroller General of the U.S., under a recess appointment pending Senate confirmation. For the post of Congress' watchdog over executive spending, Certified Public Accountant Campbell has high professional credentials. As Columbia University's assistant treasurer, he negotiated $50 million worth of wartime Government contracts (for atomic research, midshipman training, etc.). In 1949, under Columbia President Dwight Eisenhower, he was made university treasurer, and last year Ike appointed Campbell to the AEC. Campbell's confirmation as comptroller is in doubt. For eight months House and Senate Republicans have stalemated each...
Political Watchdog...
Woodruff is a Yale graduate and a member of the Committee of Seventy, a non-partisan group in Philadelphia which acts as a political watchdog over local politicians and tries to ensure honest elections...