Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gifford's opposition to a Communications Commission sprang, he said, from the fact that only 1½% of U. S. telephone business is interstate, not enough to warrant the Federal Government's taking away State regulation of the 98½% of intrastate business...
...spite of the tremendous counter attraction that the Chicago Civic Opera Company is to the Boston Victor Herbert Festival their production of Babes in Toyland" is of sufficient merit to warrant a continuance of the exceptionally good attendance they have received in the last few weeks. The music of Victor Herbert is well enough known to make a discussion of its qualities entirely superfluous, but for those who are refreshed by its light hearted rhythmic unes, these present revivals at the Majestic are proving more than adequate...
Soon U. S. Prohibition agents appeared at ''The Braes," explained to Mr. Pratt that they had no warrant to search his home. They expressed a belief that Mr. Pratt's casks had contained not flower pots but 240 cases of French champagne. Mr. Pratt not only confirmed their belief but obligingly arranged to have the shipment trucked back to Brooklyn, where it was destroyed...
When Chief of Police Frank Matthews arrived, he had to argue with Moore for 20 minutes to put down his shotgun and accept arrest. On the front porch lay the dead body of Agent Robert Knox Moncure. Beneath it was the blood-stained warrant. In the kitchen lay the shot-riddled dying body of Agent F. R. Patterson...
Moore's defense: The search warrant was invalid after dark...