Word: watchdogging
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...first meeting of the new year, the Student Council last night set up a watchdog committee to "keep in touch" with Congressional investigations of Communists in universities. It further appointed a group to study and late advise the Council on a plan of action for publicizing what it called the current threat to academic freedom...
There is strong internal evidence that one of these books, And I Learn About People, was actually written by a cocker spaniel named Delmar W. Beman Sr. The author writes as a dog, in the first person, sometimes even breaks into doggerel. Sample verses to a watchdog: Watching o'er one's mind and soul, / Watching o'er one's kin and friend, / Make time and living worth the while, / Breed strength and sureness / And warmness of smile...
...last congress Lenin went to (he died in 1924) was the Eleventh, which set up the powerful office of general secretary, designed to watchdog the party machinery. Stalin got the job. The ailing Lenin had his misgivings. "This cook," he said of Stalin, "can only serve peppery dishes...
...votes. ¶ In medium-sized businesses (between 100 and 500 workers), workers' committees must be kept informed of all policy decisions (e.g., profits, sales, financing), and must pass on all improvements. They will also have a say in hiring & firing. ¶ In small workshops (less than 20 employees), watchdog labor councils will handle work contracts, employee welfare, grievances and training...
Died. Senator Brien McMahon, 48, congressional watchdog of the atomic energy program, who received 16 first ballot votes at the Democratic Convention as Connecticut's favorite son candidate for the presidency; of cancer; in Washington. A Yale Law School graduate (1927) and a protege of Connecticut's shrewd old Boss Homer Cummings, 88, he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General when he was 33, was first elected to the Senate in 1944. After the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, he crusaded successfully for civilian control of the atomic energy program (now headed by his onetime law partner...