Word: probe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's ?11,695 ($32,750) probe turned up none of the gambling muck uncovered by the Kefauver committee's similar investigation in the U.S. Reported the commission: "We can find no support for the belief that gambling, provided that it is kept within reasonable bounds, does serious harm either to the character of those who take part . . . their family circle [or] the community generally...
...department offers a great many courses in the history of English and American literature. Most of these are fascinating even when they cover periods as short as 40 years. For instance, Sherburn's courses in 18th century English literature probe manners and morals as well, with generally delightful results...
...York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who declined to testify before the Kefauver committee because it would not appear before him at Albany, decided that a crime probe was a pretty good idea after all, if he was running it. He set up his own five-man crime investigating committee, gave it $250,000 and subpoena power and told it to look into ties between crime and "any unit of government anywhere in the state." He also ordered a special grand-jury investigation of Saratoga Springs, the horsy spa only 30 miles from the governor's mansion where gambling...
Formation tomorrow of an all-powerful College Crime Committee with plenary subpeona powers to probe "Harvard Crime" found many local yeggs in flight last night...
Nevertheless, Glueck contended, the pretend investigations have been well-conducted and, to a great extent, non-political in character. "The only circus quality of the probe has been added by the nature of the educating medium of television," he added...