Word: probed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence men north of the border from selling "ten to 50 millions of dollars" in worthless securities every year in the U.S. The report also laid out the committee's future work; a subcommittee is now investigating the way proxy fights have been run, while the committee will probe the effects on the stock market of heavy security purchases by institutional investors, e.g., banks, pension funds...
...check was the result of an IRS probe covering the years 1946-52. Asked for a year-by-year summary of the findings, McCarthy replied tartly: "The breakdown is that they found I had paid too much over a period of seven years, that I had reported everything accurately, that I did not take all the deductions I was entitled to take . . . That is all the breakdown I can give you on it. Period...
RADIO & TV PROBE by the Federal Communications Commission, likely for this year, will be the first full-scale look at the industry since the famed "chain broadcasting" investigation of 1938. FCC wants to take a close look at the economics and operation of the industry, especially the role played by sponsors, talent and ad agencies, has asked Congress for an $80,000 appropriation as a starter. The House has approved the money; the Senate will probably consider it next month...
Student action to force the Young Republican Club to investigate charges of unfair campaigning in the organization's recent election appears to have failed, after the HYRC planning board yesterday turned down a move for a probe...
...Ferguson was a Taftman at Chicago, but later, as Republican Policy Committee chairman, he became a loyal Eisenhower Administration man in the Senate, leading the fight for Ike's military budget. White-thatched Homer Ferguson, 66, is noted for gentle friendliness, dogged fact-searching (during the Pearl Harbor probe, he grilled General Marshall for a week running) and as a worrier, particularly about things that offend his sense of rectitude, e.g., the congressional pork barrel. Twelve years a Senator, he was defeated last fall by Democrat Patrick McNamara. His legislative experience should stand Ambassador designate Ferguson in good stead...