Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...went the rounds of Manhattan bankers. For two weeks Haiti's President Stenio Vincent tried to get a refunding loan of $11,000,000 so that he could pay off Haiti's present U. S. bondholders and rid his little republic of the U. S.'s watchdog, Sidney De La Rue. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs. But the bankers wanted De La Rue on the spot to protect the refunding loan too. President Vincent had gotten exactly nowhere last week when he left Manhattan for Washington...
...reason for President Vincent's visit to the U. S. But chances were slight, that he will succeed on his mission. President Vincent's argument that Haiti's finances are in excellent shape is the same one Washington uses to keep Watchdog...