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...floor leader, he speedily established himself as the watchdog of party loyalty. When Taft sponsored a public-housing bill, Wherry accused him of a tendency towards socialism. With the exception of farm subsidies, which Nebraskan Wherry supported, he racked up as consistent a record of opposition to the New Deal and the Fair Deal as any Republican Senator. He called the Atlantic pact a "trap" and the Greek-Turkish program a "military adventure...
...capital as head of the visa division, he confined himself to rigid administration of the immigration laws, surrounded himself with experienced men, kept a policy of complete honesty and forthrightness with legislators. His policy worked out so well that even Nevada's crusty Pat McCarran, self-appointed watchdog of the gates to the U.S., once called the visa division "an American fifth column in the State Department...
...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...