Word: probe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This hearing was on charges made by seven rebel members of the Orleans Parish Grand Jury against the probity of District Attorney Charles A. Byrne. Mr. Byrne has supposedly been aiding the jury in a probe of the tangled corruption of Parish affairs throughout the State. Meantime pressure was brought-apparently by Earl Long-on Byrne to resign. Said Byrne: "There is no power or influence that can make me resign." Eighteen hours later he resigned, giving the familiar Louisiana excuse of "ill health...
...finest piece of astronomical glass ever made. Because of the observatory's southern location, it will cover more sky than any other in the U. S.-all the sky except that relatively small part which lies within 30° of the south celestial pole. But it will not probe so far into space or catch such faint stars as Mt. Wilson's 100-incher; and Dr. Struve, candidly admitting these limitations last week, said that it would be used for those wide-vision purposes to which it is especially well adapted...
...once kept a delegation of striking building workers away from his home with a shotgun. Every two years comes his turn to preside over his court's criminal division, and Judge Southern has taught wrongdoers to watch the calendar carefully. Last time he sat he tried to probe Kansas City's notorious 1936 election frauds, but Federal authorities beat him to the draw in a prosecution of 200 election officials and workers that severely shook the Pendergast machine...
...Professor John Livingston Lowes, I can only say that our infinite sense of loss in the Department of English is mingled with admiration for his superb achievement as a scholar, and with gratitude for his generosity as a colleague and a friend. It has been given to few to probe the secrets of the poet's heart as it has been given to him. We can give him only our thanks, admiration, and praise, but I believe that his greatest and most lasting tribute will come from those poets whose works he has illuminated for us all--Chaucer, Coleridge...
Investigations of the radio industry and the FCC took a forward step during the week when the Senate Audit & Control Committee lifted Senator Wallace Humphrey White Jr.'s all-inclusive broadcasting investigation demand out of storage by earmarking $25,000 for the probe. And Texas' Representative William Doddridge McFarlane renewed in the House his ten-month-old demand for a radio monopoly investigation. He freshened up his act by charging that two unnamed former U. S. Senators had taken bribes. Mr. McFarlane wants to reopen an old antitrust suit against the Bell System and RCA and its subsidiaries...