Word: watchdogging
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...Allen Towner Treadway has represented Massachusetts' First District in Congress for 29 of his 74 years. Banker, insurance-company director, hotel owner, Treadway has been an able peacetime servant of his constituents, has well served the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers as an unofficial watchdog on tax legislation. His knowledge of tax matters is profound and broad...
Revisitor. In Portland, Ore., for the second time in a year a prowler broke into The Wee Taverne, rifled a pinball machine, ate a banana, drank a bottle of pop and left, undisturbed by the watchdog...
...serious, and rotund Mr. Moore, innocency personified, it is Senator Oliver P Loganberry, "The Watchdog of the Senate," detailed to New Orleans to investigate the machinations of the Louisiana Purchasing Company. Boss Man William Gaxton is anxious to prevent the Senator from making his investigation and attempts to sabotage shy, misogynist Oliver by filling him with "Mississippi River Water," planting Vera Zorina on his lap, and then snapshooting the scene. Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana triumphs...
...worked fast: industry's self-appointed House watchdog, bellicose Representative Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga.; and bumbling Representative Carl Vinson of Milledgeville, Ga., self-appointed watchdog of the interests of the Navy's high command. Together they suddenly proposed an amendment which was designed to freeze the old and new priorities powers under OPM's Stettinius; give official status to committees of industry, and make all priority rulings finally subject to approval by the Army and Navy Munitions Board. Further: to warn against the probable coming ouster of Stettinius. appointment of anyone as Priorities Director would...
People and businesses have moved out of Jersey City like the Israelites from the land of Egypt. Moaned the New Jersey Voter, taxpayers' watchdog: 50 to 60% of mortgaged private homes have been foreclosed. Population has dropped from 316,715 to 301,173 in ten years, while neighboring cities showed population spurts. Empty windows, deserted, ramshackle buildings, line Jersey City's tired streets...