Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warrant Corps Sirs...
...commissioned and warrant officers and the warrant corps of the U. S. Navy feel that TIME, of all publications, should be correctly informed on this score, so that in future full credit may be given an officer of this Corps as regards his rank and status. We deeply regret the loss of our beloved shipmate and therefore feel that in fairness to his memory, he be placed in some definite category instead of that of neither officer nor enlisted...
...commissioned officer receives his commission from the President, ratified by the Senate. A warrant officer receives his warrant from the President without such advice and consent. After serving as warrant officers for six years, boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and machinists may be commissioned chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., etc. to rank with, but after, an ensign. The term commissioned officers does not, however, usually include chief warrant officers. Chief Pay Clerk Troy was a commissioned officer of the warrant corps...
...warrant corps has 1,454 men, consisting of boatswains, gunners, electricians, machinists, carpenters, sailmakers, pharmacists, pay clerks, acting pay clerks with their commissioned chiefs. Warrant officers wear officers' uniforms but have their own mess...
Just one hundred years before the American Revolution, Thomas Danforth, treasurer of Harvard College and justice of the peace in Cambridge, issued a warrant against three Harvard students, several town men, a soldier, and some of then female friends "to answer respectively for nightwalking and entertainment of such persons, with other inside meanors committed by them contrary to law" notably drinking...