Word: warrantable
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...Admiral's eyebrows rose straight up to the embroidered oak leaves on his cap. To Captain Macnamara, who had gone punting many a time as a boy, mud was no stranger. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns. A petty officer with a megaphone scrambled to the top of the stern range finder. "By the numbers, jump!" he bellowed. "One-two-three-HIPE!!" As one man. 1,300 seamen sprang...
...Leslie E. Myatt saw the item, he marched to the Record's office with a horsewhip. When Editor Levine came out, he cracked him twice. Editor Levine scuttled to a magistrate where he got a warrant for Dr. Myatt's arrest, planned...
...President with "great sorrow" accepted Secretary of the Treasury Woodin's second offer to resign his post. Near Tucson, Ariz., where none but his immediate family was admitted to his bedside, Mr. Woodin's throat ailment (reputedly cancer) had not sufficiently improved, he thought, to warrant a continuation of his leave of absence. In the White House Oval Room, where he had been sworn in as Undersecretary of the Treasury in November, Henry Morgenthau Jr., 42, was made a full-fledged Secretary of the Treasury in the presence of the Roosevelt and Morgenthau families...
...enjoyed working with Eddie Casey," Nelson asserted when he announced his intention of not returning as a Crimson mentor next fall. He expressed regret that his business forced his retirement but he felt that the ten weeks each year that he had devoted to football interfered too seriously to warrant his continuance in office...
...Council and Assembly of Newfoundland, humbly approach Your Majesty praying that whereas in the present emergency Your Majesty's island of Newfoundland is unable from its own resources to defray the interest charge son the public debt and whereas the Royal Commission appointed by Your Majesty's warrant bearing the date of the seventeenth day of February 1933 to examine into the future of Newfoundland, has recommended that for the time being and until such time as the island may become self-supporting again, the administration of the island should be vested in His Excellency the Governor acting...