Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role of watchdog of the war effort, Missouri's able Senator Harry Truman has growled warnings to many a harried war contractor who was not coming up to the expectations of Goodman Truman and his Investigating Committee. Last week his Committee gave some short, sharp barks that should delight these same contractors. Subject: reconversion...
...traditional title that goes with the job of U.S. Comptroller General is "Watchdog of the Treasury." The Comptroller, grizzled, paunchy Lindsay Carter Warren of North Carolina, is proud of the title. He is also justly proud of his reputation in the House of Representatives as a dead-earnest, last-ditch supporter of the Congress' Constitutional right to examine the way the Administration spends every last penny of the people's money...
False Teeth Explained. "I could go on ad infinitum and ad nauseam," cried Watchdog Warren, ". . . and yet the War Department says we have no right to challenge these things...
Friday. Most surprising witness was Louis Croteau, executive secretary of Boston's bluenosed, privately financed Watch and Ward Society, "watchdog of New England's morals." He qualified as smut expert because he sees four or five burlesque shows a week for 40 weeks a year (enough to make it pretty tiresome), hunts indecency in some 60 to 70 publications weekly. Said he: "After profound consideration, I didn't find anything. . . . lewd [in Esquire']. ... It is in the spirit of good clean slapstick humor and we could all use a little more of it right...
Nuisance. In St. Joseph, Mo., officers at the county jail were bothered by telephone calls from somebody who offered, for a suitable reward, to return their watchdog...