Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian legation in Berlin was a Dr. Erwin Wasserback. Dr. Wasserback's position as a diplomat had not only long been accepted but he was in addition a Catholic priest. No Austrian bombs have burst in Berlin, but German police promptly called at his house with a warrant. Dr. Wasserback hopped out of bed, picked up the telephone, called Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in London...
...Garda, Italy, stocky little Francesco Agello, 30, sole survivor of Italy's 1931 Schneider Cup team, whipped the seaplane Red Bullet over the course for a new world record of 423.7 m.p.h. A month later his chief, Colonel Mario Bernasconi, was timed unofficially at 434 m.p.h. Last week Warrant Officer Agello, leader of the speed school, tried the course again in his Red Bullet. Timing cameras, again unofficial, caught his speed at 440 m.p.h...
Doctors, his own disciples, the British Government all thought he was signing his death warrant. Rather than have him die on its hands, the Government let him out of jail. St. Gandhi retired to Lady Thackersey's terrace and for three weeks swallowed nothing at all save little sips of water flavored with soda and salt. His weight dropped from 99 to 80 lb., he lay in semicoma, but amazed doctors continued to announce that his physical condition was good...
...were of a stripe. William Allen White compared Morgan tactics to "a thimblerigging game." Of letting friends in on the ground floor of stock prices, said the Baltimore Sun, "Taking the practice as a whole, it is bad." The reticent Kansas City Star found nothing in the story to warrant deviation from its style of one-column headlines. Editorially: "Mr. Morgan is wrong when he contends that private banking should not be subjected to ... scrutiny...
...real brains behind Judge Louderback, that he arranged receivership appointments, split fees, paid the Judge's bills. Last week "Sam" Leake in San Francisco pleaded that he was too old and ill to attend the Senate trial as a summoned witness. The Senate issued a bench warrant, provided him with a nurse for the trip across the continent...