Word: warrantize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called the dinky, vicinal railroads whose earnings did not warrant their existence a "cancerous growth" on the U. S. transportation system. He advocated that 30,000 miles of lines (about one-ninth of the total U. S. mileage) be scrapped. In the southwest, in the region he would operate his system, 4,000 miles should be ripped up.* Where transportation, passenger or freight, was needed for isolated communities, motor trucks and buses could handle the traffic more economically and more profitably than could a skimped railroad, under present conditions...
...views expressed in 1923 in a press conference: "There is no change in the American policy, which, as I understand it, is awaiting evidence of the existence of a government there that, in accordance with our standards, would warrant recognition ; one that has such a form and has adopted such policies that we should be warranted in saying to the American people this is a government, that meets these standards and these requirements, and you will be justified in making commitments accordingly, and expecting, when these commitments are made, the usual support of your own government...
...Doubtless this seeming paradox is explicable by the fact that few experienced motorists drive far over wet roads without snapping anti-skid chains on their tires. *The statistics did not warrant this admonition, showing less than 1% of cases where the driver was intoxicated...
...rights of individuals were also clarified. In the case of Agnello v. the U. S., several persons had been arrested for conspiracy to violate the antinarcotic law. The home of one of them was then searched without a warrant and cocaine found. The Court held that the search was illegal and therefore that the use of the cocaine found as evidence against the man was improper...
...play was not bad enough to warrant such abuse. It was, to be sure, not good enough to warrant more than light laughter and a few long yawns. There have, however, been worse plays these recent seasons, several of them. The outcry at Beyond Evil was simply an indication of the growing indignance of metropolitan audiences at high-flown, false emotion badly acted. There is a sound corrective in this frankness. Actors and authors will hesitate before risking unbridled ridicule...