Word: probe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Probe Causes Tension...
...three large boxes containing hundreds of documents seized five years ago in the Amerasia case. Around the boxes swirled a storm of argument. Republican Senators, none of whom had actually seen the contents, cried that the Administration had put the fix on the Amerasia case, and that a real probe of the case would prove it. From Iowa, where he was campaigning in a primary election, Bourke Hickenlooper charged that at least some of the documents were important U.S. wartime secrets. Didn't one of them show the disposition in 1944 of U.S. submarines in the Pacific? Wasn...
...Boston Traveler commented in July of 1948 that "George Fingold, Assistant Attorney-General who headed the Revere scandal probe, merits commendation for public service. The racket-buster might be called a born lawyer...
...that movies, like other forms of fiction, are ready-made daydreams. Consciously and unconsciously the movies reflect, say the psychologists, the deep-rooted feelings of the national culture in which they are made. Last week movie fans could examine the results of an ambitious attempt by two psychologists to probe the celluloid daydreams of the U.S., Britain and France. Americans were not likely to find the results flattering...
Senate investigators said last night that "subpoenas will begin flying" soon in the $150,000 probe of big-time gambling across the nation...