Word: warrantize
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Football captain Carroll Lowenstein's leg, broken in practice last spring, is in bad enough shape to warrant deferment from the draft, one of the doctors attendant upon the team reported yesterday...
...When I got my warrant as corporal, I think that was the proudest day I ever spent in the military," said he. "I never was a 2nd lieutenant, much to my regret." His old Battery B mates offered an explanation for the strange jump from stripes to silver bars: Up until last June Missouri National Guard officers were elected, and Harry Truman was promoted by vote of his buddies directly to 1st lieutenant...
...Heard a subcommittee on elections excoriate the "despicable 'back street' type of campaign" which helped elect Baltimore Republican John Marshall Butler, unhorsed Maryland's Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. There wasn't enough legal evidence to warrant kicking Butler out of the Senate, said the committee, but in the future such "defamation, slander and libel" by a candidate's agents should be made reason enough. Joe McCarthy had been "actively interested" in the Butler campaign and the subcommittee thought a "sitting Senator" involved in another's campaign shenanigans should be made just as liable...
...curtailment of unprofitable commuter service is certainly good economics. If revenue traffic does not warrant operating certain "off-peak" trains, their continuance merely throws an added burden on other traffic, both freight and passenger. Is TIME criticizing sound private-enterprise methods...
Since these have often been oversubscribed in the past, Gill may also post a doubles tournament for both men and women, and perhaps a mixed doubles tournament if interest is sufficient to warrant...