Word: watchdogging
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...afflicted territory like a bird of ill-omen. Turkey, Jugoslavia, and Italy undoubtedly would not resist taking a morsel of Greece if it were dangled before their eyes. The one hope that Greece has of setting her affairs without interference and loss is to enlist British support. The British watchdog, with a sentimental interest since Byron and a commercial interest antedating that, has already growled but may have to do a little judicious nipping to preserve "the cause of Greek independence...
...many of our readers recall the days of the so-called "prosperity"? Then daily proclamations from the Department of the Treasury decreed the golden age, upon the authority of the mild-mannered gentleman who served as such a polite watchdog of the nation's finances. (Mr. Morgenthau can never hope to achieve a like benignity; the poetry of yesterday has yielded to prose.) To be a broker was not at that time the equivalent of pauperism, nor were pent-houses merely points of departure for leaps to the pavement below...
...framework of the Constitution as interpreted by the Borahs can prove but restrictive, not liberating. The only real question is, whether the cold facts of the situation demand permissive powers to be granted to the Executive, and if they do, whether Congress then has the makings of a real watchdog of liberty and not simply those of a canine with a penchant for baying at the moon. WOTAN...
Freedom of Press. If any outsider had the notion that Freedom of the Press was only a well-chewed bone of a few watchdog's like Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick and Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher, the convention proved the contrary. With a few notable exceptions, the rank & file of U. S. publishers genuinely believe that the Administration is capable of imposing censorship, that they scored a momentous victory in forcing into the Newspaper Code a clause reaffirming the Constitutional guarantee of a free Press. Cheered to the rafters was Col. McCormick, chairman...
...Watchdog De La Rue will pass over his duties to Haiti's National Bank and quit Haiti...