Word: watchdogging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...girls have little choice but to tag along, women's tennis today is known as the Betz Club. Its eastern home is with Delaware's wealthy tennis fan William du Pont, who subsidizes Ozzie, Bruffie and a dozen or so lesser lady tennists as much as the watchdog of amateur tennis, the U.S.L.T.A., allows. Betz owns to having been helped financially at one time (it is permissible to accept "gifts"), but now she gets along on her own and the legitimate take...
...Friendly Geiger Counter. Watchdog of the atomic age will be the Geiger counter, which registers even feeble radiation. Public-health officials may learn to carry them. Soldiers and diplomats, too, may find use for Geiger counters. When the Russians master atomic energy and explode their first test bomb in darkest Siberia, its radioactive by-products will sweep around the world in the upper atmosphere. Geiger counters will announce the news to every foreign office...
...first time in history, the U.S. was getting ready to lower the ceiling on its national debt. With the blessing of Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, the Senate Finance Committee sent up a bill to reduce the limit from $300 to $275 billion.* Crowed billion-pinching Senator Harry Byrd, watchdog of U.S. finances: "A concrete step toward the end of deficit financing...
...interested spectator of these, and 14 similar transactions, was the Securities & Exchange Commission's chief watchdog, James Aloysius Treanor Jr., a husky, hardworking lawyer who caught the eye of SEC by the way he had run an FCC investigation of the telephone system. He joined SEC as a lawyer, succeeded Ganson Purcell (now head of SEC) as director of the Trading & Exchange division in 1941. A soft talker, who used SEC's big stick sparingly, he has been watching new issues...
...experimental colony in England, got an economics degree at Cambridge, returned to the U.S. to work as a State Department economist. He later helped Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen ghostwrite New Deal speeches, reported off & on for the New Republic, worked up to be the family corporation's watchdog on the staff...