Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Washington opposition to the four-system Eastern merger plan was strengthened last week when William C. Green, special counsel for the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to probe rail consolidations, filed a report flaying the proposed unification scheme. Committee Chairman Couzens who seeks to block all mergers welcomed the Green report because it declared that the Big Four Plan threatened labor...
Another attempt to probe the imponderable, the play is more satisfying than Mr. Barry's Hotel Universe of last year. This time he has successfully endowed his characters with enough character to make them convincing individuals and their dilemmas real and anguished. He has done it tenderly and surely, more surely than Eugene O'Neill in the similar explorations of Strange Interlude. The play is excellently acted. Osgood Perkins, late of The Front Page and Uncle Vanya, gives a memorable bit as the hardboiled but far from insensitive secretary of the doctor. Critics who have seen...
From the vantage point of his own easy chair the editor makes a commendable attempt to probe into the psychology of vacationing and vacationers. Although successful in spots his contribution as a whole lacks cohesion and finish
...from feeling personally abused, the Levands last week were making fine capital of Mr. Legge's remark. They printed all dispatches mentioning their part in the controversy. They said that Chairman Legge had "told Kansas to go to hell." Their seven-column headlines shrieked: CONGRESSIONAL PROBE OF LEGGE IS DEMANDED. The story explained that the Brothers Levand were the demanders, that they had telegraphed Sen- ator Capper of Kansas to get busy...
Each year the calloused, potato-masher snouts of pigs probe the earth of southern France, bring up $15,000,000 worth of truffles for the omelets, canapes, sauces, poultry dressings of world gourmets. No ordinary packing house pigs are these animals. They are usually as well trained, as highly esteemed as good quail dogs or fox hounds...