Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firmly convinced," firmly declared Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, daughter-in-law of Author-Diplomat Meredith Nicholson, "that most actions for breach of promise and seduction have extortion as their chief motive. Surely a suit to recover money as damages for the broken romance cannot soothe a woman if love was genuine...
Last week the widely-shared convictions of handsome young Mrs. Nicholson, ten years married and mother of two, seemed about to become law in Indiana. Her bill, prohibiting all breach of promise, alienation of affections and seduction suits was passed 87-to-7 by the State House of Representatives, of which she is the only woman member. The Senate seemed certain to concur...
...autumn day in 1933, shortly after she sued Harold Fowler McCormick for $1,500,000 for breach of promise, Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday was standing on the practice tee of the Valley Club at Santa Clara, Calif. Few feet away, she claims, Major Max Fleischmann, chairman of Standard Brands' finance committee, was booming out his opinion of her and her suit. Halting a No. 3 iron in midair, Mrs. Doubleday pricked up her ears, listened, flushed, stormed off the tee. Last week, with the McCormick suit settled for $65,000, she turned on Major Fleischmann. Suing in Manhattan...
...Moscow the Press denounced the sitting business as "A BREACH OF INTERNATIONAL DECENCY," then printed all week furious threats to Japan, Germany and every other nation with which the Soviet Union might find itself at war. Roared Pravda, official organ of the Party: "History is working in our favor, and know ye, Mister Imperialist, that if you impose war on us we will fight, not on our territory, but on yours...
...small apartment of her own. There she unexpectedly finds herself playing unwilling hostess to a Communist fugitive (Walter Siezak, ingratiating young hero of Music in the Air). He is supposed to be a German Red who has taken a potshot at Adolf Hitler. It appears to be a breach of party discipline to shoot individuals, but he hopes to be forgiven on the grounds of "youthful exuberance." His charm, his broken English and his pistol persuade Miss Claire not to give him up to the police...