Word: probe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...loud and mistrustful Owen Brewster, sniffed at Hughes again. The committee was still sniffing cautiously last week when a rank outsider, slight, swarthy Society Columnist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker), suddenly lit on an angle that took the sniffing out of congressional back rooms and into the headlines. The Hughes probe was loaded with girls...
...self-righteous, whose soul search does not reveal anything worth confessing, Father Wilson has prepared a 20-page probe. If anyone can answer all the questions without finding something to own up to, Father Wilson thinks that he must be either "a saint or spiritually purblind." Sample questions...
...last week, as three Senate committees began a combined probe into the fantastic finance of invasion currency, they were shocked to discover how the plans had miscarried. In the words of New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, Morgenthau and Army and Cabinet co-planners had been so "naive, gullible or stupid" that the U.S. had been stuck for the whopping sum of $250 million in invasion marks...
...Spot. Missouri's Republican Senator James P. Kem had long been needling Tom Clark for failure to act. Clark had insisted that a thorough, preliminary probe by the FBI had turned up no grounds for federal action (i.e., no conspiracy to deprive a voter of his rights in a federal election). But before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover testified that his investigation had been specifically restricted by Clark to examining the data uncovered by two Star reporters and four Kansas City election commissioners...
This week the C.W.V. monthly paper, the Catholic War Veteran, published the third in a series of editorials giving the results of the probe. The Veteran named names, but did not actually pin a Red label on anyone. Instead, it published a sort of catechism, and then listed the names of some "two-timing Catholics" it would like to have answer its questions. Said the Veteran: such persons "publicly profess Catholicism under circumstances or in situations which make such profession suspiciously beneficial to a suspiciously anti-Christian cause...