Word: annul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sued for Annulment. Donna Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, by General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford, Conn., civil engineer, antiFascist, grandson of the famed Italian liberator; in Nyack, N. Y. Said she: "The General seeks to annul our marriage . . . it is a much finer thing . . . than the business of an ugly New York divorce." Donna Madelyn divorced her first husband in Yucatan...
...General Pierce Butler Jr., son of Associate Justice Butler of the U.S. Supreme Court, who last week finished a thoroughgoing review of the Barnett case. Mr. Butler found: 1) the Interior Department had no power to give away Barnett's wealth; 2) the U. S. could sue to annul Barnett's marriage to Anna Laura Lowe; 3) suits to recover Barnett's wealth were justified; 4) nobody had been guilty of criminal conspiracy or fraud...
Whereupon Mr. Perovich grumbled, protested. He preferred a death sentence to a life sentence. And, in 1925, a Kansas District Judge ruled that the presidential right to annul a sentence (by pardon) did not include the right to alter it (by commutation) without the prisoner's consent. Thus mercy became high-handed, clemency a usurpation. Furthermore, since Mr. Perovich was being illegally held, his detention could not continue, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ. At large, Mr. Perovich opened a barber shop, has spent the last two years law-abidingly wielding shears and razor...
...RHINELANDER FAILS TO ANNUL MARRIAGE" headed nearly a column of type. Another act of the melodrama of miscegenation that followed the marriage of blue-blood Leonard Kip Rhinelander to mulatto Alice Jones dragged by as the Court of Appeals upheld all previous decisions denying the annulment application. Mrs. Alice Jones Rhinelander, cast off, said: "This shows that my case was founded on truth." With the judgment, her $300 a month alimony stops; she must start a separation suit to gain an allowance...
...Government has already won in both the Federal District Court at Los Angeles and in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco, in its other civil suit to annul Edward L. Doheny leases of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves in California. Last week this case went before the Supreme Court for final decision...