Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Somewhere in the hills were his two sons, lost. Behind him, horrified, was the St. Louis suburb of Brentwood, where he had long been respected as a manufacturer and a member of the school board. All around him was hostility. In Mississippi County waited a sheriff with an insanity warrant. In Cape Girardeau County waited 800 vigilantes determined that he should hunt no lions there. Over the rough roads of Scott County bounced the truck, stopping now and then while Hunter Wright begged shelter at a farm house. Always there was only one bed. "It's making me look...
Suddenly, without warning, old Sun Oil Co. announced it would pay from 10? to 12? a bbl. more for Texas crude. Oilmen watched tensely, recalling that last April Continental Oil made a similar upping of 15? when conditions did not seem to warrant it and that every other major company followed. Soon after Sun's announcement a number of independents upped prices. They included Barnsdall...
...fell in line. The directors of the American Petroleum Institute, meeting in Excelsior Springs, Mo., expressed their approval. But the industry's spirit was dampened when Standard of New Jersey remained ominously silent and Standard of Indiana came out with the flat announcement : ''Conditions do not warrant even the present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide leeway for further abuses and delay progress toward permanent recovery" When oil was booming, when...
...with criminal libel. Publisher Harpell's lawyers would not handle the case. He appeared in Court alone and shocked everybody by screaming: "The plaintiff . . . has given to Samuel and Martin Insull and Ivar Kreuger $26,000,000 of policyholders' funds. ... I am here to swear out a warrant for his arrest...
...Orillia, Ont. and demanded his voluntary return to Chicago. He flatly refused. Next morning he and his loyal friends Mr. & Mrs. William Barker of Highland Park, Ill. who had arrived in their car during the night to be with him, motored to Toronto to see lawyers. A Canadian warrant for his arrest had been issued, he was advised to surrender. At 9:30 p. m. he gave himself up to the Canadian police in the small town of Barrie, Ont. There was a brief hearing before a judge as lank, as gaunt, as curt as he. And then, through...