Word: probe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essentially 'true.' ... A poem is not a study of a problem, but a strange melting together of sound in the ear, of conception in the mind, of impulse in the nervous system, of old actions mired in the memory. The most the teacher can do is to probe the body of the poem for lesions that corrupt the working of phrase, image, rhythm, tone, theme-to verify, with his limited power, whether the poem is 'true' to itself...
Last week the President angrily said that if McDonald were not approved, he would not appoint anyone else; he would run the RFC himself. Thus prodded, the House committee quickly finished its probe. At week's end, as Symington resigned his post, the committee cleared McDonald. There was no credible evidence, it said, "reflecting adversely upon [his] honesty and integrity." With that out of the way, it looked as if the Senate committee would approve McDonald this week...
...cleanup job that Harry Truman promised for his malodorous federal house loomed as one of Augean scope when Judge Thomas Murphy backed away from it last December. The President seemed to have in mind a formidable probe and prosecution, a Democratic version of the Republicans' famed Teapot Dome inquiry. Last week the job turned out to be far less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson...
...After three years of investigating the Communist leanings of his teachers, New York City School Superintendent William Jansen totted up the score. As a result of 1950's probe, he announced, one probationary teacher was dismissed, one regular resigned, and a third teacher retired. The next year, three teachers admitted they had been members of the party, ten resigned when called for questioning, and eight were dismissed for refusing to answer questions. This year, eight more insisted on keeping mum. Last week Superintendent Jansen suspended them...
...McCarran Committee (Senate) will carry on the hunt for Communists, fellow travelers and subversive influences on U.S. policy. Its chairman, Nevada's Pat McCarran, has twelve projects in hand. Only one - the probe of the influential Institute of Pacific Relations (TIME, Sept. 3) - has yet been unfolded for the public eye; the eleven others are still under wraps in executive session...