Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible for this reviewer to revive for the n'th time an appreciative artifical sentimentality or a chortling complacency, he must grant the editors of "The American Procession" due credit for skillful application of the diluted stimulus. The photographs, arranged in rough chronological order, are so selected as to probe the most various corners of subconscious memory. There is a full length profile of John L. Sullivan, arms limply extended, legs swathed in knee-buttoned tights, mustachios waxed and contemptuous, stomach distended,--for such was the masculine style. There is the "tennis girl of the eighties", racquet posed delicately behind...
Austrian Jew, Lawyer Kresel had been an assistant to Crusader William Travers Jerome, a special Federal Attorney in the post-War "Beef Trust" probe, an inquisitor of Manhattan's ambulance-chasing racket, and one of the most brilliant trial lawyers in the U. S. As inquisitor in the judicial investigation of New York City's magistrates' courts in 1930 he had achieved nationwide fame. The very day Bank of United States was closing its doors, Manhattan newspapers were calling Isidor Kresel "the swift sword of public conscience." Few weeks later, indicted along with seven other Bank...
Ever since their Supreme Court began to probe the Reichstag Building fire (TIME, Oct. 2 et seq.) Germans have been wondering what would happen if the Court should call beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and the No. 2 Nazi, as a witness. Would he deny that the firebugs escaped through the Reichstag's famed underground passage leading to the house of the Speaker, who was then Göring himself? Could he make plausible the Nazi charge that Communists set a fire which provided Chancellor Hitler with the opportunity to rush straight to President...
...Flower) Henry La Guardia was President of the Board of Aldermen 13 years ago, was the fiery little Republican candidate whom Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker defeated in 1929. But in the campaign he charged Tammany with most of the honeyfuggling which Samuel Seabury later proved in his famed probe. Last Autumn Mr. La Guardia, a radical Republican, failed to be re-elected to Congress. As a deft counterthrust Tammany promptly began to talk of running Ferdinand Pecora as the Tiger's candidate for district attorney. Smart counsel to the Senate Banking & Currency Committee and a Sicilian immigrant, Democrat...
...courses and fields of concentration. This might be accomplished by a seminar or meeting among the Advisers themselves, at which information could be exchanged, and at which the opinions of upperclassmen on the courses they had taken might be aired. The Advisers might make it their business to probe the mere esoteric regions of the courses and fields under their jurisdiction. In any case, a more compact and well-informed organization is needed to care for the Freshmen in the future; until this can be accomplished by paying Advisers for their services, steps along the lines suggested should be taken...