Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implication in Theater (TIME, March 12) is that Commissioner Paul Moss served a novitiate in censorship as a member of the National Board of Review, which you call "watchdog of cinemorality." For nearly 30 years the Board has been actively and outspokenly against censorship: its reviewers classify and recommend films on the basis of entertainment, not morals...
...produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice at censorship when LaGuardia appointed him License Commissioner in 1934. For the seven preceding years he had been a member of the National Board of Review, watchdog of cinemorality...
...status of the National Council of Resistance. Now that the underground fight is over, the C.N.R. is struggling to assume a new function. Its Communist steering group wants it to become a kind of council of state, a watchdog to keep France on the path of social reform. The Government wants C.N.R. energies to be absorbed by the Assembly. ¶ The tension between the Provisional Government and the Communists. By disbanding the leftist Patriotic Militia, Charles de Gaulle had openly clashed with them (TIME, Nov. 13). Now he offered them a sizable sop. By special decree his Government pardoned Maurice...
...asked daughter Katarina, who was acting as watchdog, if it was possible to get Sibelius outside before sunset. He was very willing. He walked in the woods and sat on a bench near a stone wall...
...plodding talents to smoking out Army waste, business grabs and Government inefficiency. His Committee was not so quick to shoot its mouth off as Martin Dies's; people gradually learned that Truman usually knew what he was talking about. The Truman Committee became the nation's wartime watchdog...