Word: watchdogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week that President Truman announced his program for mobilizing the U.S. economy, the Senate's new watchdog committee on U.S. preparedness uttered its first warning growl. After just a month's sniffing through the U.S. mobilization effort, Texas' sharp-nosed Chairman Lyndon Johnson had caught the strong scent of "business as usual" in some corners of the Defense Department's planning...
...Senator Harry S. Truman out of obscurity in World War II. Freshman Johnson was not unprepared for the job. During the war he had run an efficient House investigating committee which worked much like the celebrated Truman Committee without drawing its headlines. Johnson believed that a congressional watchdog should be something of a seeing-eye guide for blind bureaucracy: his committee marshaled its facts in private, presented them to the appropriate Government officials, and usually received thanks for its suggestions...
...evidence, he produced an approving comment from Georgia's crusty, shrewd Carl Vinson, perennial watchdog of the armed services. Johnson quoted from a five-month-old Vinson speech: "There can be no doubt that Secretary Johnson deserves the commendation of the entire nation for having carried out so successfully the drive to squeeze fat out of public expenditures...
...special advantage" amendments (such as Kenneth Wherry's clause guaranteeing reasonable profits to each joint of the meat industry) which had been written in by the Senate. Congress provided that most of the bill's authority must end June 1951, and set up a joint Senate-House watchdog committee to keep an unwinking eye on the President...
Clean Sweep. In London, thieves broke into the Avenue Hotel, made off with 4,800 cigarettes, 140 bottles of liquor, a radio set, the watchdog...