Word: probing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel?failure once more?an attempt as a tutor ? as an actor ? as a tutor again, and this time an interval of peace, of what was almost luxury, as the protege of a rich banker. Then a deliberate return to the slums?the impulse to write?to probe into odd corners of life too strong to be denied. At last the edge of the precipice?no reasonable future in sight?abruptly followed by what proved salvation?the offered editorship of a new political weekly. The book ends there. " I was to be a politician and journalist until...
...General Wood must probe deeper. He must discover who is the politically responsible power in China; or, rather, who is likely to be the power...
Special investigations have become so numerous of late that they are a common feature of our political life. The existence of committees to probe the coal industry, housing conditions, ship-building and other operations, both public and private, is as necessary as it is deplorable, and apparently will remain so as long as public service administrators are responsible only to their pocketbooks...
...trouble with this round-about method of checking corruption and waste is that it offers a temptation to those of our newspapers who prefer to create excitement rather than to publish facts. No sooner is a committee formed to probe affairs of public interest than the newspapers prepare for an orgy of "startling disclosures", for blazing headlines containing the names of men in the highest ranks of public and private life. For an expectant reading-public there are graphic accounts of untold wealth secured by graft, of prosperous men off to prison, via the hastily called Grand Juries. All this...
...these awful chapters must be added the Haitian chapter--a scandal which the mendacious mal-administrator of the Navy Department is now trying to whitewash by appointing his own investigators to investigate his own record after he has been "caught with the goods" and "smoked out." It must be probed to the bone. It will be. But the Congress must apply the probe. Mr. Daniels has been tried and found wanting. After the fourth of next March he will be chiefly remembered in the Navy for his contribution to its slang of a new synonym for a cunning falsehood...