Word: probed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Stevens may find some (if only a little) consolation in the fact that the granddaddy of all congressional investigations was directed at an Army chief. In 1792 the House established the first congressional investigating committee in U.S. history to probe the massacre of Major General Arthur St. Clair's Indian-fighting army near the Ohio-Indiana border. St. Clair, whose command of 2,000 had been largely "purchased from prisons, wheelbarrows and brothels at $2 a month," resigned his commission, but was eventually exonerated. By remarkable coincidence, a direct descendant of the general, Boston lawyer James St. Clair...
...fresh phrase. To stop this practice, City Editor James H. Richardson of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner (circ. 324,468) last week printed a special list of 85 "Forbidden Words" for his staff. Among the banned words and phrases: dragnet, aired, bared (for revealed), legal bombshell, probe (for investigate), sweeping investigations, innocent bystander, fair sex, goodies, kiddies, smoking weapon, dropped dead, ill-gotten gains, minced no words, nuptial knot, socialite, tongue-lashing, whirlwind courtship...
...control, euthanasia, sterilization of the mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings...
...threatening to punish servicemen who supply McCarthy with tips, 4) offering to break a general in return for McCarthy's promise of silence, 5) threatening to expose the Schine case unless McCarthy abandoned his probe of the Army's Loyalty Board...
Despite these dark implications, the general tone of the investigations has been disappointing. Senators have launched into the probe with an enthusiasm more appropriate to the traditional Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Two separate inquiries have been started in the Senate alone. Squabbles over who is to get the juicier witnesses seemed to be developing between Senator Harry F. Byrd (Joint Committee on the Reduction of Non-Essential Federal Expenditures) and Senator Homer E. Capehart (Senate Banking Committee). Capehart claimed the probe as within his group's legitimate jurisdiction; Byrd countered that his committee had been quietly...