Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influenced him most. By Lawrence's will he eventually got Mt. Vernon; the Virginia Council and Governor Dinwiddie also gave him a job as adjutant and the rank of major which Lawrence had held in the militia. Two years later, the serious, acquisitive money seeker became the watchdog of a 350-mile frontier harried by French and Indians...
...Friend. In Salt Lake City, Alvin Tippitt's conscientious watchdog faithfully kept everybody at bay while Alvin Tippitt's house was ravaged by fire...
...General Hu Tsung-nan was fond of taking lonely walks. Suddenly he would stop, beat his chest in Tarzan fashion, and howl to the heavens. Ex plained Hu : "Thus do I free myself of internal and external pressures." Friends urged him to take a wife. General Hu, short, sturdy watchdog of China's north west, shook his head. "I have a job to do," he said...
...first policeman of the proletarian revolution was borrowed from the Polish aristocracy. When Felix Dzerzhinsky was made head of the Bolshevists' CHEKA, he wrote to his wife: "I am now in the front line and I want to be merciless, to tear the enemy to pieces as a watchdog would...
Changes. To get off the spot, one member proposed at the next meeting that Watchdog Clair Taylor be made superintendent. The audience burst into cheers. The board unanimously voted him a five-year contract. But after thinking it over a week, Taylor declined the job. Instead he recommended that Governor Sigler ask for special powers to fire any board member he saw fit. Even some members of the school board were beginning to feel sheepish about their own conduct. Said Board Member Sadlowski: "I like to play politics, but clean politics. What we've been doing here...