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Treasurer Anderson announced that he could not be responsible for B.R.T.'s funds unless he was allowed to watchdog. To this part of disgruntled Mr. Anderson's indictment, B.R.T.'s Whitney had a telling answer: union assets since 1935 have increased from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, membership by 17,695 to 133,969. Brother Whitney had his delegates oust Brother Anderson, vote to meet hereafter in cities "whose newspapers appreciate our visit sufficiently to deal fairly and respectfully with...
Since that time, however, the Prime Minister has soft-pedaled appeasement, and the German press has vilified the man once pictured as Germany's friend. Last week German Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, watchdog of the Reich's reading and photographic matter, outlawed the post cards under a Nazi law for the "protection of national symbols...
...before they are made and auditing them afterwards.* First recipient of this 15-year appointment was crusty Republican John R. McCarl, whose term did not end until 1936. So crusty was "General" McCarl that long before the New Deal spenders became his greatest antagonists, he was famed as "The Watchdog of the Treasury." Since 1933, Franklin Roosevelt has twice tried, twice failed to draw the Comptroller General's teeth through Reorganization...
...long ballpark friendship with John Nance Garner, thought he would earnestly try to compose the General Accounting Office's present squabbles with the Treasury, TVA, and other Government agencies. But if a Republican administration comes into office in the next ten years, Fred Brown may become a watchdog in earnest...
...designated watchdog of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts for 24 years, FTC has had more experience coping with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does...