Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow swore out a warrant for her estranged husband's arrest, when & if he should set foot in England. Her charge: The Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that...
...Erskine Caldwell's customary satanic humor and forthright sexual symbolism, and because a number of them have appeared in such cautious magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, some readers may conclude that Caldwell is mellowing into a merely successful writer. Examined more closely, they warrant another guess. More skilful, briefer than Caldwell's last collection, Kneel to the Rising Sun (1935), they suggest that Caldwell is feeling his way toward a less stylized, less repetitious, more complex kind of writing...
Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, finding that the vandals had shuttled between Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kans., issued a warrant for Mahan on the basis of a Federal statute against interstate felonies. A few hours later, a taxi drew up at a street intersection in the Plaza district of Kansas City, Mahan stepped out and gave himself up to waiting police. At week's end, former Labor Leader Mahan was arraigned on ten charges, held in $8,500 bail. The Journal-Post, satisfied that window-smashing was over, prepared to expose other rackets. One thing...
...products of concentration in Chemistry, such as the ability to solve problems, do not warrant concentration unless a man is sure his career is going to involve chemistry, for it takes more time than any other department and practically smothers any other interests. And even after finishing the Undergraduate course in Chemistry here a student is not prepared for industrial chemistry, but must get a Ph.D. before he can get a good job. Chemical research is a second major object of concentrating in Chemistry. Medical School is the goal of the largest part of the concentrators, for four courses...
...which he was attending, reached Manhattan at 1 a. m., sat down at home to inspect a complaint against one James J. Hines, alleged conspirator and partner in the operation of the sprawling city's $100,000,000-per-year "policy" or "numbers" racket. Justice McCook signed a warrant for Hines's arrest...