Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week debate on the Robinson Compromise is to commence. Most opponents of the old bill declared themselves opposed to the new bill on principle, but observers agreed that if it could be brought to vote, Joe Robinson had lined up enough votes to pass it. First test of strength is expected when opponents try to refer the new bill to the Judiciary Committee where it would doubtless die. Second test of strength may come several weeks later when, after long but genuine debate, opponents may filibuster to prevent a vote...
Usually somnolent, the House of Lords woke up to debate last week the act to broaden British grounds for divorce (TIME, June 14), with Lord Dawson of Penn, long physician to King George V and friend of Queen Mary, championing the bill. "When a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning," somewhat daringly observed Lord Dawson, while more than one bishop frowned. "Women are more sex-conscious than of old and demand a more sex-satisfying life. Why should marriage alone remain static...
...purpose of the bill is to enable a spouse who has been frustrated by the jailing or shutting up of the other spouse in an insane asylum to cite this as grounds for divorce and eventually wed again. "This bill would launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot see the end!" cried the high church Marquess of Salisbury. "There is not even any definition in this bill of either 'desertion' or 'incurable insanity' " although it would make them grounds for divorce, and the Marquess went on in his opposition...
Some weeks ago the Archbishop of Canterbury took as Primate of All England a straddled position on the bill, saying he would abstain from voting, and this freed the tongues of such unconventional clerics as the Bishop of Birmingham who last week cried: "I challenge the suggestion that bishops of the Church of England should not vote for the bill because remarriage after divorce is contrary to the traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery...
...precaution against panic, French exchanges had already been closed. In Paris frightened French who wanted to exchange francs for foreign currency were refused, and banks halted exchange operations in francs altogether, except that foreign tourists were sold what they needed. Declared the emergency bill promptly introduced by M. Bonnet and promptly enacted: "Such a situation cannot be prolonged without compromising our financial independence, our military security, our social gains and the economic recovery of France...