Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desk of Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, whom President Roosevelt lately made watchdog of all emergency as well as regular Government expenditures, lay last week warrants for $100,000,000 worth of Treasury disbursements to Federal Housing Corp. Comptroller McCarl, without whose signature no Government money may be spent, refused to countersign. To Secretary of the Interior Ickes, FHC president, he explained: FHC, set up under the National Industrial Recovery Act, was to be a permanent organization, whereas its parent agency was an emergency one. That did not look legal...
...Room 15 on the Capitol's main floor. All revenue legislation must originate in the House, in this committee. Chairman Doughton (spectacles up, biting nails) is a North Carolina farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman Doughton is shortly to be translated to the Tariff Commission. His probable successor is stalwart, pipe-smoking Democrat Samuel Billingsley Hill. In the picture the gentlemen are cogitating liquor taxes. They decided to up the spirits tax from...
...must be sure of his plans a day ahead of time; he must, in many instances, seek out that elusive figure, the Senior Tutor, who must, in turn, submit to constant interruption in the name of moral order. This is not necessary. In any case, the Janitor remains the watchdog, and the twenty-four hour rule can have no other justification than Puritanism. The Janitor, moreover, is a handy fellow, easily and always accessible. There seems to be no good objection to a system which would permit students to register for permissions at his office and at the time when...
...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...