Word: annullments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critical financial state of New Haven gives pertinence to a problem which for long has confronted universities and local governments. The New Haven authorities have threatened Yale with special legislation to annul the tax-exempt features of its charter, unless the university voluntarily contributes in the present emergency. In view of the fact that Yale has been accused of securing unjust exemptions, the possibility takes on extra force. The university golf-course, according to press reports, has been transformed by academic magic into a botanical gardon. Dormitories and gymnasiums have received the addition of recitation rooms, in order to justify...
...differing on minor points, by both Houses. A joint commission was to iron out differences, but the new canon was certain to give divorced persons a chance-"1,000 chances," one bishop called it-to be remarried in the Church. They could appeal to an ecclesiastical court which might annul their previous marriages under certain "impediments"-impotence, insanity, et at. By admitting testimony which did not appear in the original divorce suit, the court could nullify a marriage and still evade the hated word. Divorce...
...similarity to the nullification doctrine which precipitated the Civil War. The former rests simply on the assumed right of Congress to refuse to enact subsidiary legislation to the Eighteenth Amendment since it is not directly obligated to do so. The latter assumes the right of an individual state to annul legislation distasteful...