Word: annullments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insisted upon marrying non-Aryan Nora Gregor whom he had made the star of Vienna's official Burg-Theater, and to achieve this has been pestering the Catholic Church for three years to annul his own aristocratic marriage. Austria is deeply Catholic and wise Rome was unwilling to annul the marriage of a Vice-Chancellor of Austria so that he might marry an actress. II Duce esteemed that the Pope was right, shut off the flow of Italian money to the Prince, and Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria neatly wangled Starhemberg out of his Vice-Chancellory. After...
...hereby and above all else solemnly annul the signature extorted from a weak and impotent government against its better knowledge, confessing Germany's responsibility for the late...
...mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning, upon finding the State powerless to annul the marriage: "It's nothing short of tragedy...
...culminating in a post-election Rooseveltian "message to the public" called The Election-An Interpretation. This year Publisher Macfadden, who no longer approves of Contributor Roosevelt's policies, came forward in his own person as a Republican possibility, announced with no false modesty that, if elected, he would annul "fool laws," put down "racketeers." Before the Cleveland Convention in June, Candidate Macfadden was briefly touted by friends, including Novelist Thomas Dixon. Depth of Mr. Macfadden's political thinking is indicated by his belief that Russia and Japan are planning early attacks...
Next day Mrs. Spencer indulged in a spectacular reversal of form. Hurrying to La Porte to try to annul the marriage, Mrs. Spencer announced that she now thought her 200-lb. son-in-law had traded on her daughter's maternal instincts. Said Mrs. Spencer: "It was just on account of his being sickly and weak that Baby married him, I know. She is so kind-hearted and sympathetic." Gist of Mrs. Spencer's complaint soon proved to be that she did not have a high regard for the social standing of young Wright's parents...