Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate's Small Business Committee, a restive watchdog, last week barked at big business. Charged the committee: ten large manufacturing companies * have received 40% of the $22 billion worth of defense contracts awarded since Korea. By hogging defense contracts, said the committee, big corporations have choked off supplies of critical materials to small companies, which can neither carry on civilian production nor get defense work...
...Voice of America. The committee sliced its funds by 90%, from $97.5 million to only $9.5 million. In doing so, the committee said that it really approved of the Voice's mission, but just didn't like the way it was being run. (A citizens' watchdog committee, headed by the Christian Science Monitor's Editor Erwin D. Canham, rushed into print with an endorsement of the Voice's operation...
While some people loudly cried for wage & price controls, the Senate-House watchdog defense committee last week lent itself to an all-out attempt to sabotage credit controls, the only existing brake the U.S. has had against inflation...
Harvard's watchdog is the alumni elected Board of Overseers. Overseer visiting committees are the only outside groups that regularly inspect all sections of the University. Whenever a serious protest arise, over the de-emphasis of Geography for example, it is the Board of Overseers that investigation...
...course, the Overseers are more than investigators, for they stand at the top of the entire University administration, having the final decision on all "major policies" and all permanent appointments. But the watchdog role remains the Overseers' greatest contribution. The Board carefully considers the appointments and policies put before it, but it invariably approves the proposals...