Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watchdog Harry S. Truman took a bite out of the U.S. Army & Navy last week. The Missouri Senator's criticism: they are unnecessarily delaying the re sumption of civilian production...
Bought Off. In Port Chester, N.Y., Evans Ward returned home to find that burglars had made off with jewels worth $3,000, found his Great Dane watchdog contentedly munching a roast of beef from the refrigerator...
...vast convoys, superbly protected against Adolf Hitler's U-boats, U.S. troops still streamed into Britain for the Big Show. But before the House of Commons, Seadog & Watchdog Winston Churchill threw more emphasis on the great air-power drive against the Continent than ever he had before (see p. 36). Was the solid date for the invasion, reportedly agreed upon at the Teheran conference, still solid...
...watchdog of U.S. radio, FCC's James Lawrence Fly, said last week that it made no difference to him whether radio time for controversial discussion was paid for or given free- so long as both sides got a hearing. WMCA assured both sides of just that (provided the station editorially approved of the discussion at all). WMCA was not entirely reassuring about what it would do if there were, say, seven sides to a question. But it became a highly interesting case study for students of freedom of speech...
...TIME, Dec. 20). President Shuster wrote his forthcoming book on Germany with Dr. Arnold Bergstraesser, who at California's Scripps College and the University of Chicago has had to contend with extramural attacks due to his activities in Nazi Germany a decade ago. President Shuster is also a watchdog for the American Civil Liberties Union, which opposes all restrictions on academic freedom...