Word: probing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with trustees of his hospice, went to England with a bitter heart. In 1908 in a rural English chuch he says he had a stirring, heart-warming religious experience which set his life on a new course, revealed new spiritual powers to him. These new powers, enabling him to "probe souls" and "cleanse" by extracting confessions, earned him a shower undesirable publicity in the lively 1920's. It was then that Frank Buchman and his young co-workers invaded British and U. S. colleges, became famed as the religionists who held houseparties, consorted with the well...
Massachusetts taxpayers have left no stone unturned in their exhaustive probe into the mysterious question of what becomes of their money. Their report to the legislative committee on ways and means presents cold facts about several dozen of the 705 items of the state budget, all revealing that funds are being misused to the tune of a grand total of some thirteen million dollars...
...Committee's interim activities roused a mighty howl throughout the land, which showed that many & many a citizen still regarded his privacy as something more than a "fiction." Backed up by court action, it promised to result in a showdown on the headline-making power of Congress to probe the affairs of private citizens at will...
...Justo which seemed likely to cost many of them their jobs. The President's skin is tissue-thin. In a fury last year he ripped out an order to "sue the Government of the United States for reparations for besmirching Argentineans' reputations!" after the U. S. Senate's munitions probe charged the acceptance of bribes by Argentine Army munitions buyers (TIME, Oct. 8). Scared underlings finally broke to General Justo the extreme difficulty of persuading the U. S. Government to let itself be sued, the virtual impossibility of collecting reparations from Washington. Such might be the facts, General Justo admitted...
...principal pressagent in its fight against power companies-the Federal Trade Commission. Declaring that he was still searching for stronger words, the Institute's Managing Director Bernard Francis Weadock accused the Commission of "fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, dishonesty, downright maliciousness, breach of trust" in its eight-year power probe (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.). Director Weadock is supposed to be the only person who has ploughed through every page of the 73 volumes of the Commission's findings. The five Commissioners he exonerates on the ground that they had not read "the record made by their subordinates." Last...