Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdone by this apparent spirit of compromise, the New York Stock Exchange last week launched a severe investigation into 15 stocks which have lately skyrocketed amid showers of tips. The Curb Exchange followed with a probe of certain stocks on its list...
...until the story had lapsed into small type that the Traveller admitted two very important things--that the report had not yet been submitted to Governor Ely, and that whatever information the Traveller possessed on its contents came from "persons in the State House close to the Hurley probe." When it had retreated safely into the inner pages, the Traveller became increasingly generous and increasingly reserved; the historian's "ut fertur" appeared, all statements were pegged on to "competent observers", and learned "on good authority." In other words, the Traveller must dilute its vitriol; but holds which are barred...
...says, Mr. Gill is no longer "available after what has happened," Massachusetts need not forget that "what has happened" is the work of the newspapers, and of the illegal sources from which their material has been drawn. Who are the "persons in the State House close to the Hurley probe"? The state has a right to know...
...quarter this time!" week. But Now that they had the "Kingfish" down, his many Louisiana enemies lost no time in trying to get him out. At the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans were 32 Federal in come tax investigators, sent by an un sympathetic Administration to probe Senator Long's finances. Two live slander suits pended against him in Washington and Baton Rouge. All eight Louisiana Congressional Districts were organizing anti-Long clubs. The scrappy Women's Committee of Louisiana retained General Samuel Tilden Ansell, dismissed prosecutor of the Senatorial investigation of Louisiana politics, and John G. Holland...
Last week in Manhattan George Van Schaick was the chief witness in a State investigation to determine whether he had faithfully obeyed that order. Governor Lehman had ordered the investigation at Commissioner Van Schaick's own request. But the curious thing about the probe was that almost no one had ever criticized the Commissioner's supervision of New York's big life companies. What had drawn fire was a business tucked away in the department's "miscellaneous bureau"-guaranteed mortgage companies...