Word: watchdogging
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Warrior Ivins also had a gentle side. The one who knew it best was his plump, four-year-old grandson, Danny Ivins. Whenever Danny visited him, Ivins sent away his vicious watchdog (it had once snapped at Danny). He took Danny along on some of his politicking trips, always bragged about...
Lobbyist Supreme. At 29, Sproul became comptroller, making him business manager of the university's campuses and its vast real-estate investments, and watchdog of Cal's interests at the state capital. As a business manager, Bob Sproul was efficient; as a legislative lobbyist, he was superb. Sometimes his methods annoyed Cal's crotchety old astronomer-president, William Wallace ("Eyebrows") Campbell. Once, hearing Sproul's booming voice ripping through the wall, President Campbell demanded to know what the comptroller was doing. Told that he was talking to Sacramento, the old man snapped: "Well, tell...
...cold, bare cell in the far-reaches of the Christian Endeavor Building, just across from the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children and nigh unto the stronghold of the Anti-vivisection League. In the midst of two city blocks of good-doings, this traditionally New England watchdog of morality slowly undergoes a transition that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some of the most astonishing misconceptions of the public stood since the scholastics counted angles on pinpoints...
Many will question the need for a watchdog of morality, especially in Boston. But Croteau cities Scollay and the "tenderloin" area (in and around lower Washington Street) as examples of what a surface-strict city will allow under the facade. Whether Watch and Ward can help has been a matter for frequent public debate. Certainly the Society's streamlined and neo-sociological methods in the field of vice-suppression cannot hurt. But along with the new methods has come expansion--Watch and Ward will move from its retreat to occupy the entire Christian Endeavor Building. Its new facilities will...
Recommending that existing rules on the whole should not be changed, the report looked to more efficient enforcement within the Houses as the practical preventative, but decried known cases of "watchdog policing" as unnecessary and contrary to College policy...