Word: probing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obviously futile to point out, much as one might like to, what the alumnus body should or should not do. But insofar as the alumnus reflects the spirit of what our colleges have been in the past, any effort to analyze them should aid us in our probe of the privately endowed colleges...
...Charles A. Beard indict the U. S. railroads before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee last fortnight. Something of an authority on railroad mismanagement. Historian Beard was urging adoption of a pending Senate resolution authorizing a railroad investigation on the order of the Banking & Currency Committee's famed stockmarket probe. Even Jesse Jones, whose RFC millions have not prevented the worst succession of railroad failures since the days of Jay Gould, has admitted that the investigation "might be a good thing...
...under the given conditions, no great ingenuity is required to serve even passably decent food. There would appear to be only two reasons behind the present indigestive contrepas; incompetence or a form of financial looseness whose obscurity does not permit of definition. In either case, a Pecora should probe the pots and pans to gratify the not too academic curiosity of the mulcted. Who nets the rakeoff? Who fills the little tin boxes? Who gets a commission on what...
...were really a question of propaganda on their part, asked the powermen, what about the rolling barrage laid down by the Federal Trade Commission in its interminable power probe? For months that body has been pouring forth releases which by headlines damned all powermen for the sins of a few like Samuel Insull...
...Minnesota probe included First Bank Stock Corp., the other great Northwestern exponent of group banking, but the fact that at least one official was an Olson friend seemed to temper the commerce commission's tactics with that institution. Not so with Banco: After months of investigation the commerce commission presented its findings-allegations that dividends were paid without earnings-to a grand jury in Hennepin County (Minneapolis). Promptly the grand jury voted a no bill, thus thwarting Governor Olson's determination to put someone in jail...