Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seals' fancy, 32,000-seat park could easily be double-decked if the crowds should warrant it. Polling scores of fans, Sports Editor Curley Grieve of Hearst's Examiner found them all for big-league ball. Preferably, they would like to see the Seals competing with the Yankees or Dodgers ; a West Coast third major league was strictly second choice...
...beat and never bring in any news but write free advertising about some of the dirtiest criminals out of prison." Hearst's Manhattan movie critic Lee Mortimer (who recently took a couple of punches from Frank Sinatra) assured his readers that he knew Bugsy. Bugsy's death warrant, he wrote with an air of absolute authority, was signed last winter in Havana by Procurer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano...
...When MacPartland does let loose with something like China Boy, Jazz Me Blues, etc., he faintly resembles Bix, but nowhere near enough to warrant the title of the article being "Like...
...legal search warrant, since it must specify what is to be searched for and seized, "is not only unnecessary; it is a hindrance." As for the officers' good faith, "history has shown good police intentions to be inadequate safeguards for the precious rights...
Justice Frankfurter was caustic: "If only the Harrises were involved, one might be brutally indifferent. ... [But] what is involved far transcends the fate of some sordid offender. . . . How can there be freedom of thought or freedom of speech or freedom of religion if the police can, without warrant, search your house and mine from garret to cellar merely because they are executing a warrant of arrest? . . . Yesterday the justifying document was an illicit ration book, tomorrow it may be some suspect piece of literature...