Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Such losses for tax purposes were legal but in the hue & cry last week retiring U. S. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell (no kin) promptly launched a probe into this and other Mitchellisms...
Later in the week New York's lumbering Congressman Hamilton Fish Jr., pursuing his demands for an investigation of all companies that failed subsequent to R. F. C. support, asked for a probe of the Union Indemnity situation. Declaring it "a rotten mess that should and must have full publicity," Congressman Fish also demanded the resignation of President Hecht as chairman of the New Orleans R. F. C. advisory committee. Rudolf Hecht, he charged, had known all along that Union Indemnity was tottering, and as a director he had seen to it that part...
There are obviously many of the administration's financial measures which would suffer unfortunate misinterpretation in the hands of those not aware of the whole circumstance; as a general rule, undergraduates would have little desire to probe such mysteries. But in concealing from view a matter in which students are intimately concerned and in which it is actually disinterested, the administration can hardly hope to quiet suspicion and ultimate outcries. To the average undergraduate mind, silence is the best proof that his interests have been disregarded...
Suddenly and unexpectedly last week the Senate Banking & Currency Committee voted to halt its probe of Wall Street. No decision was made on whether it would start again in the autumn but politicians know that most such investigations when once allowed to lapse are seldom revived. The Committee returned to Representative La Guardia his little brown trunkful of papers relating to Wall Street and the Press. Only a week ago $50.000 had been received to continue the investigation until March 4, 1933 but in Washington it was guessed that that much was needed to cover a deficit already incurred...
...object of international law is to make the rights of nations certain, not to unsettle them; if a wrong has been done to correct it at once, not to leave it as a festering sore for any nation to probe thereafter, or as an excuse for action that would otherwise be without justification. One of the worst international evils is the existence of indefinite claims that can be used on convenient occasions. Our government will not go to war, and unless under great provocation will not suspend commercial intercourse, as Japan knows full well; but while using whatever pacific pressure...