Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then the President went up the gangplank, putting Governor, Mayor, secretary, photographers, newsmen behind. With Vincent Astor on the bridge beside his cheerful, ruddy-faced skipper Captain Gustav Klang, the Nourmahal nosed carefully down the 18-mile reach of river toward the open sea. Behind her like a vigilant watchdog for the fortnight's cruise glided the U. S. destroyer Ellis...
...technical conditions of the power age," says Tugwell's theory that the Depression was due to psychological rather than to natural causes "is the basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there could be no better man; as a maker of policy there could be no worse. He has long since ceased to enjoy Roosevelt's confidence...
...square forehead, the bull mastiff is the result of a cross between mastiff and bulldog. The Great Pyrenees looks something like a white Newfoundland, is an able sheep herder in its native mountains. Lately imported from Europe, its U. S. owners have found it an amiable companion, an excellent watchdog...
...third note, Watchdog McCarl argued that even if FHC was legal, both he and the Attorney General would have to pass on the titles to each and every parcel of land which the Government intended...
...opinion because it might invalidate potent but as yet little used Federal Surplus Relief Corp., another potentially permanent investment agency under the temporary Recovery Act. When Secretary Ickes left the White House he was in calmer mood. Said he: "We will work the matter out all right." If Watchdog McCarl would not change his mind and sign the FHC warrants. Congress would be asked for fresh law on the subject...