Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman war-watchdog committee exploded in a new report, this time on a half-dozen phases of U.S. aircraft production, with a special shelling reserved for Curtiss-Wright Corp., second largest U.S. war contractor (first: General Motors...
...excited: since 1938 many anti-union bills have passed the House only to get lost, frayed or pigeonholed in the Senate's powerful Education and Labor Committee. There, session after session, year in, year out, union-loving Senator Elbert Thomas of Utah, committee chairman and New Deal labor watchdog, quietly, firmly, fatally sits on the bills...
...they had time, its ten members might have toasted their accomplishments all night. They had served as watchdog, spotlight, conscience and spark plug to the economic war-behind-the-lines. They had prodded Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones into building synthetic-rubber plants, bludgeoned the President into killing off doddering old SPAB and setting...
Good Works & Bad. Thus Leon Henderson, watchdog of the nation's prices, big bad wolf to Congress and bull in a china shop to all & sundry, dropped out of one of the biggest of all wartime offices. For all his polite interchange of letters with his President, Henderson did not fall. He was pushed: by the farm bloc, by Midwestern Congressmen who loathe gasoline rationing, by Democrats who thought that his restrictions had been the biggest factor in November's election returns. And perhaps the Administration felt it was time to sacrifice him when a new blunder over...
...Allen Towner Treadway has represented Massachusetts' First District in Congress for 29 of his 74 years. Banker, insurance-company director, hotel owner, Treadway has been an able peacetime servant of his constituents, has well served the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers as an unofficial watchdog on tax legislation. His knowledge of tax matters is profound and broad...