Word: warrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey had yet taken on this point. Then Candidate Roosevelt used a homely illustration. He did not think, he said, that a policeman would be very effective if, on seeing a housebreaker, he would first have to call a meeting of the town council to get a warrant...
...Department recently put out a circular awarding the Combat Infantryman Badge to all (frontline) infantry units for exemplary action in combat. Officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men of the Medical Department and Corps of Chaplains were not considered eligible for the award...
...streamlined and so vastly improved that oldtime experts are hard put to keep up with the latest bidding methods (the opening two-bid, once the strongest forcing call, is now used as a weak bid by most of the experts, because so few hands have enough honor count to warrant its use). With the changes many new players have reached top rank. The three most promising: 29-year-old Peter Leventritt of New York City, made a Life Master in 1943, who won last week's world-championship master pairs; George Rapee, bush-haired son of Radio City Music...
Minneapolis Judge W. W. Bardwell, who thought that by issuing the injunction he had averted a strike threat, was as angry as Mr. Hubbard. He promptly is sued a warrant for Boss Petrillo's arrest. But the warrant could not be served-Boss Petrillo was well out of reach, in Chicago...
...Warrant Officer, 2nd Class, named Wright Windadge was in charge of a landing craft delivering jeeps to our troops on Biak. Just before making the landing an unaccountable swell shook the craft and the jeeps fell into the sea. When the troops ashore demanded to know where their transportation was, Windadge replied: "Many brave jeeps lie asleep in the deep...