Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return of Hero Charles .A. Levine little resembled that of long-wandering Ulysses. Not alone the faithful watchdog of New York City, Official Handshaker Grover C. Whalen, but everyone else, recognized Hero Levine far in the distance. He was not grey and grizzled. He was only four months and a half older than when he skipped aboard the airplane Columbia at Mitchell Field, L. I., to become a hero. He had no adventures to tell because the press had told them all-how he sat with Hero Clarence Chamberlin in the Columbia until it came down in Germany...
...year and hoped by now that he had been returned to some legitimate work- or is there such an army of these men that no legitimate work can be found for them all? We can't think of a shadow of a reason why John should need a watchdog or, if he does, why Calvin Coolidge shouldn't pay for it out of his own pocket as any other father would. Are we to wind up by charging the American people for a nurse for Calvin Coolidge's fourth cousin's baby girl Gwendolen...
Many members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Trade Commission, the Tariff Commission, the Shipping Board, and even that "watchdog of the Treasury," Comptroller General John R. McCarl, read diligently last week Chief Justice Taft's 55-page decision which upholds the President's power to remove all executive officials without the consent of the Senate (TIME, Nov. 1). Although none of these officials is in any immediate danger of being ousted, yet the feeling hangs heavy that they can be dismissed at the caprice or hostility of the President...
...pencil through Government expenditures-cutting out teatasters for the Navy, slashing the traveling expense allowances of Federal employes. He enraged many; some staunch Army and Navy men deemed him a menace to their free expansion. Now, perhaps, with the President's ouster power unrestrained, the squirming pencil of "Watchdog" McCarl will pause before striking put that Government-paid turkey dinner of some traveling official...
Last week it was ascertained that Comptroller General McCarl, "watchdog of the treasury," had spent $1,650 for new rugs in his office. Criticism from various departmental heads who have felt Mr. McCarl's blue pencil slashes, brought forth the explanation that "he might have paid $6,000 for one rug, as did a certain Cabinet official...