Word: probe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominate Beck for the Man of the Year. He has served as a perfect example to union laborers by showing them where their weekly dues end up. I only hope that the Senate investigators continue to probe into the union bosses and rout out the undesirables, silk shirts...
...probe appeared to have political overtones. Some Democrats on the committee said it would center on "tight money" and described it as the answer to President Eisenhower's call earlier this year for a study of monetary and fiscal policies...
...doubtless aware that the "Committee" has recently mailed (I suppose to all alumni) a lengthy letter with two enclosures, on this subject. It appears to be a reasonably well-organized effort to launch some sort of "alumni probe" into suspected subversive influence in the Yard...
...Growing Opinion. What really bothered labor was what the public might be thinking, and what Congress and state legislatures might do. One day last week the House Education and Labor Committee announced that it would soon start up a new probe into the administration of union welfare funds. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell let it be known that his department was studying several different types of possible legislation. Beyond that, there was talk of tougher measures that labor experts ranging up to Secretary Mitchell deem restrictive, e.g., amendment of the Clayton Act so as to make labor unions subject, along...
...SUBSIDY PROBE will reexamine mail payments to Pan American World Airways as far back as 1946. CAB says its general investigation of company (TIME, March 18) showed that "for the 1946-53 period alone Pan American's expense, underwritten with subsidy, may have been overstated by as much as $6,500,000." Agency also is pressing Pan Am to refund its $5,936,000 subsidy for Pacific operations...