Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made business worse. In normal times nobody likes a bear. When the bear has been right and the people wrong they dislike him even more intensely. Wall Street last week awaited the start of the Senate's investigation with some fear, much curiosity. Its fear was chiefly that the probe might evolve into a punitive bear-hunt out of which would grow legislative restrictions upon a free and open market...
...have stopped and bowed when some passerby has murmured the bromidic "Nice day, Valentine." Exactly which of these men of God gave their name to the day which the world is about to celebrate is one of those questions which only a candidate for his doctorate is allowed to probe. It is a neat problem. The Vagabond has evolved a little theory all his own which he offers as a neat solution to that riddle of the ages, "Which Valentine and Why Valentine...
...investigation. Governor Roosevelt vetoed the measure. Vitale was removed from office by a higher court. The stench of scandal continued. A U. S. District Attorney in Manhattan, preparing to run as a Republican against Governor Roosevelt, disclosed all manner of jobbery among Tammany judges. Again the Legislature wanted to probe but Governor Roosevelt ordered the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court to undertake the investigation, picked Samuel Seabury as chief inquisitor. Five magistrates went off the bench, twelve vice squad policemen accused of frame-ups were suspended from the force. Governor Roosevelt dismissed formal charges against Mayor Walker...
...Vagabond has been wondering; a peculiarly collegiate occupation. His thoughts have been tinged with the melancholy of the times and the sadness of youth faced with an uncertain future. There has been mingled in his soul a great desire to probe to the foundations and an equally strong fear and shrinking from exposing his inner workings to the chill light of analysis. But like the thief returning to the scene of his crime, the Vagabond returns again and again to his morbid pastime...
Congressional committees found no shortage of legislative proposals to start work on. In ten days 6.383 bills were introduced in the House. 2,311 in the Senate, the great majority on private matters for aggrieved constituents. Michigan's Senator Couzens wanted a railroad probe while Senators Capper of Kansas and Hastings of Delaware wanted short selling scrutinized. Senator McKellar of Tennessee proposed making War Hero Alvin C. York a captain. Senator Brookhart of Iowa wanted to knock out the gold standard. To make the purchaser of liquor equally guilty with the seller was the legislative ambition of Senator Sheppard...