Word: probe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more fuel for the fires of congressional investigators and a probe of the Clubb case seemed likely. It was also another illustration of Acheson's inability or unwillingness to 1) believe that the question of internal security seriously concerns his department; 2) understand that the U.S. people are concerned about security in the Foreign Service, and expect him to tell them what steps he is taking to protect...
...East expert testified at his own request in connection with the committee's year-long probe into the Institute of Pacific Relations...
This week the Senators continued their probe of the professor's faulty memory. They were not proving Lattimore a Communist; but they were exposing what looked like a powerful Communist web of propaganda and persuasion, around him, the I.P.R. and, ultimately, around U.S. policymaking...
...America basketball player Bill Spivey of last year's University of Kentucky team appeared before the New York Grand Jury yesterday to testify on the fixing of Madison Square Garden games. It was emphasized that Spivey was not wanted in connection with the probe, but had volunteered to give information...
...Symington's first jobs when he took over the scandal-ridden RFC last spring was to probe the RFC's $80 million loan to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Earlier, New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey had charged that there was "fraud and collusion" between RFC and railroad officials in the granting of the 1944 loan. Last week Joseph J. Smith Jr., Symington's special investigator and onetime government attorney, turned in his report. Smith's conclusion: "There was no fraud, collusion or illegality involved . . . The RFC would probably have received more favorable treatment...