Word: probed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Support of Dulles' move to speed up committee action drew praise from ex-Governor Paul A. Dever. He said yesterday that an FBI probe is unnecessary since Conant, "having been so intimately connected with the development of the atomic bomb has already been more than adequately subjected to a test of his loyalty. Because of this, I see no reason for a delay of his confirmation...
Confirmation of President Conant as German High Commissioner moved a rapid step nearer completion yesterday when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided not to wait for an FBI loyalty probe, and began immediate action on the nomination of Conant and four other dignitaries...
...lofty, almost ethereal, sentiments of President-elect Eisenhower emblazoned on the covers of our national magazines, can one discern a single tinge of red, or hear the scrape of a single subversive note? Most certainly not, John Foster Dulles, having heroically dared the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe his background, has come through cleaner than a hound's tooth. Two minor clerks in General Eisenhower's office, presumably not so prudent as Mr. Dulles, have been consigned to outer darkness for their past indiscretions. And the music of Aaron Copland, a man who is said to have "a long...
Indictment. In the summer of 1951, the state's "little Kefauver" Crime Investigating Committee found plenty of evidence of gambling and vice in Galveston County, but the probe soon died of official inaction. Ragsdale, an ex-Air Force staff sergeant and novelist (The Big Fist), who moved to Texas City three years ago after working on several west Texas dailies, went to work. He sent reporters out to visit the joints, ran descriptions of them and their operators. At one point Ragsdale led Texas Rangers to 320 slot machines hidden in a barn, to the chagrin of Ranger Chief...
...Cousin Rachel lost a good deal of weight in Hollywood. Though the Daphne du Maurier novel was hardly serious reading, its climax did probe the ethics of a murderer and allow his crime to go unpunished. When his clemency disturbed the Johnson Otlice, producers of the film version merely omitted the murder from their script. This compromise left My Cousin Rachel moral, meager, and pointless...