Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the Foundation will begin a probe similar to the one which created such a storm when it appeared in 1929, will be decided by an executive committee which includes Frank A. Vanderlip, Thomas W. Lamont '92, Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, William A. Nielson, President of Smith College, Dr. Joseph H. Penniman, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and others...
...found myself," said the First Lord last week at Edinburgh. "That state of affairs must never occur again!" To remedy it the Admiralty will build more warships, Sir Samuel said, and went on to announce momentously that the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defense, appointed to probe the "bombers v. battle ships" controversy, has now unanimously recommended against the substitution of fighting aircraft for British capital ships. "When the country hears more of the question," summed up Sir Samuel, "there will be no two opinions among impartial people...
Present College Seniors, first guinea pigs of Yale's newest academic experiment, are looking forward with trepidation to the Comprehensives, which are intended to probe out the accumulated knowledge they have (or have not) amassed in their respective Majors...
Undercover investigators for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin completed last week what London papers called the most successfully secret probe ever made within the British Civil Service. It came as a "complete surprise" to even the top-flight officials of the Air Ministry when one night Squire Baldwin dismissed the Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry, Sir Christopher Llewellyn Bullock...
Investigator Fritchey followed closely the Grand Jury's graveyard probe. One day, while looking over the subpoenaed books of the Crown Hill Cemetery, Investigator Fritchey, who is fond of detective stories, noted that a block of 1,400 graves had been sold for $82,000 to a Mr. Dacek. Into Investigator Fritchey's mind flashed the astounding possibility that this curious name might be an anagram for that of a Cleveland policeman whom he had long suspected of undue prosperity. The Cuyahoga County prosecutors shortly found that Investigator Fritchey's hunch was correct. "Dacek" was one Louis...