Word: probe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondents or legmen. Sometimes they work for one of the great Press Associations. Sometimes they are obscure people whose nuggets have been buried on page 10 of some little-read publication. Sometimes they are men and women in TIME's home-office, who--at one end of a wire--probe a reporter three hundred or three thousand miles away until a few confused facts become a well-ordered, living story...
While subterranean current flashed between Washington and New York, SEC Chairman Jerome Frank answered Senator Norris' letter. He saw no need for the suggested probe since Hanes had candidly informed the SEC exactly who his backers were. The list: a member of the investment firm of Lazard Freres & Co., which has no direct interest in Associated; officials of the Chase National Bank, which has; Guaranty Trust Co.; Bankers Trust Co.; and CO. President Roger Whiteford, wrote Frank, has "been made president of that company at the instance of the sisters and a brother-in-law of Mr. Hopson...
...their choice for trustee was Mr. Hanes." Came the storm. Senator Norris, a power-trust-blaster from way back, blasted away at the words "informal meetings," deduced they must have included the very banking or management groups whom a trustee might have to prosecute. He advised the SEC to probe the situation "to the bottom." Krock blasted back, denying the inference, telling the Senator he had the sequence of events all wrong. In his counterblast, however, Krock revealed that Hanes had been recommended to the court by (among others) Homer Cummings...
...Follette probe of restrictions on civil liberties...
...long-germinating Republican battle-chart for the scrutiny and approval of good anti-New Dealers everywhere. Like all well-written platforms, it makes pleasant reading, paints an inspiring Utopia, but makes little sense without an analysis of the economic and social skeleton that supports it. Under such a probe, Mr. Frank's essay shows up as something far different from the trumpet call to "the good life" that it purports...