Word: watchdogging
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...sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark...
...already frozen still-haltung credits. This move sent Germany dramatically to London hat in hand, served notice that unless she receives favors of some sort from the Conference her total borrowings are as good as lost. Eagle-eyed beside Dr. Schacht came the Delegation's vigilant Nazi watchdog, a Dr. Wilhelm Keppler, who was called "Chancellor Hitler's personal adviser on economic matters...
...Samuel Shortridge of California for the Federal judgeship President Coolidge handed him in 1928. Samuel Shortridge Jr., son of the Republican Senator, thanked Judge Louderback for the fat receivership fees he was handed in his court. Last week the House thanked New York's swart little La Guardia, watchdog of the U. S. Judiciary, for digging up evidence that resulted in Judge Louderback's impeachment...
...vain Spanish Ambassador Salvador de Madariaga protested that the Lausanne Conference seemed to be "dictating" to the League Council. With glacial courtesy Sir John called the Spaniard "the watchdog of the constitutional rights and powers of the League," then steamrollered his own program through the Council, thus making himself Chairman of the Preparatory Commission...
...grey-haired, ruddy-faced, fiftyish man named William Howard Gardiner constitutes himself civilian watchdog of the U. S. Navy. He is president of the Navy League of the U. S., a 25-year-old organization of civilians and retired naval officers who contribute $30,000 per year to propagate the Big Navy idea from headquarters in Washington. Mr. Gardiner is pleased when his friends call him "The Admiral." Boston-born, he worked as a chemist, got into electrical engineering, became an associate partner of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty, made enough money to retire to a comfortable home on Manhattan...