Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where every aid is given to the enforcement of Prohibition. Startling was last week's news that U. S. District Judge Joseph William Woodrough at Omaha had placed a large and. to Nebraska, alien obstacle in the path of U. S. dry agents by his ruling that they cannot legally search a domicile without warrant even though they see, hear and smell material evidence...
Said Federal District Attorney James C Kinsler, who prosecuted the case: "The ruling is revolutionary and will be quoted throughout the country in every case based on a raid without a warrant. It is equivalent to saying that an officer cannot break into a house without a warrant even if he can see or hear a felony or even a murder being committed...
...silence of female M. P.'s after Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Privy Seal Jim") Thomas had challengingly declared: "It is against the nation's interests for women to work for what they call 'pin money' and thus deprive other people of their legitimate work and livelihood. . . . Legislation cannot cure this evil. It is a question of moral responsibility...
Instantly the Commons was in such pandemonium as might be caused in Congress by barely hinting that the U. S. cannot prosper without cutting the interest rate on Liberty Bonds. "Explain! Explain!" roared Conservatives at pallid, crippled Chancellor Snowden; but for two whole days he maintained impassive silence. Horrid inference: the avowedly Socialist Labor Cabinet harbors hopes of someday tampering even with sacrosanct War Bonds...
...sorry to say that I look toward the future with great concern. We cannot ignore the fact that according to von Seeckt's theory,* motorized German shock troops leaving Aachen at 8 p. m. could be at Brussels at 5 a. m. the next day without having met Belgian troops. . . . The population as a whole has behaved well except youths, who, apparently incited by their schoolmasters, resorted to tricks that impelled me to abandon riding or marching through the streets...