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...plodding talents to smoking out Army waste, business grabs and Government inefficiency. His Committee was not so quick to shoot its mouth off as Martin Dies's; people gradually learned that Truman usually knew what he was talking about. The Truman Committee became the nation's wartime watchdog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Missouri Compromise | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Watchdog Harry S. Truman took a bite out of the U.S. Army & Navy last week. The Missouri Senator's criticism: they are unnecessarily delaying the re sumption of civilian production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN SUPPLY: False Pessimism | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

Bought Off. In Port Chester, N.Y., Evans Ward returned home to find that burglars had made off with jewels worth $3,000, found his Great Dane watchdog contentedly munching a roast of beef from the refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...vast convoys, superbly protected against Adolf Hitler's U-boats, U.S. troops still streamed into Britain for the Big Show. But before the House of Commons, Seadog & Watchdog Winston Churchill threw more emphasis on the great air-power drive against the Continent than ever he had before (see p. 36). Was the solid date for the invasion, reportedly agreed upon at the Teheran conference, still solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: When? | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...watchdog of U.S. radio, FCC's James Lawrence Fly, said last week that it made no difference to him whether radio time for controversial discussion was paid for or given free- so long as both sides got a hearing. WMCA assured both sides of just that (provided the station editorially approved of the discussion at all). WMCA was not entirely reassuring about what it would do if there were, say, seven sides to a question. But it became a highly interesting case study for students of freedom of speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Freedom to Listen | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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