Word: probe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had the Senate labor racketeering probe recessed one afternoon last week than workmen rushed to load the same chandeliered, red-carpeted room with palms, potato chips and potables for a more friendly gathering. Following behind the food and drink came 200 G.O.P. Congressmen for a reception tendered retiring National Chairman Leonard Hall. They presented burly (6 ft. 2 in., 234 Ibs.), beaming Len Hall with a gold-plated desk set and a huge helping of kind words. But the kindest word of all that afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House...
...nationwide probe of labor racketeering, the committee is scheduled to look into the situations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis and perhaps a dozen other cities. And if the carefully prepared Portland hearings are any standard, U.S. labor racketeering is in for a thorough, top-to-bottom airing...
...week strode Teamster Boss Dave Beck, ready for the question uppermost on the minds of newsmen: Had he left the U.S. to dodge the investigation by a special Senate committee into labor racketeering? Snapped beefy, truculent Beck, whose 1,400,000-member union will be the center of the probe: "Why should I dodge? I have nothing to hide...
Eventually Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson worked out an agreement acceptable to the Fulbright boys and the Republican leadership whereby the Senate would probe Middle East policy since Jan. 1, 1946-but only after action had been taken on the President's urgent requests for authority...
...Omnibus this week brought big historical drama to television. Lee at Gettysburg, a 78-minute play written in lucid, often eloquent blank verse by young (35) TV Dramatist Alvin Sapinsley, opposed the general's two chief subordinates like tongs of a forceps with which to lay bare and probe Lee's fatal flaw...