Word: civile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Approved a conference report on the Civil Aviation Bill establishing a Civil Aeronautics Authority to supervise and regulate all phases of civil aviation (except mail routes assigned by the Post Office Department...
...members of its flock, the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize the validity of marriages performed by civil officials or non-Catholic clergymen. The Church, moreover, disapproves of "mixed marriages" between Catholics and non-Catholics, requires certain promises from the non-Catholic before granting a dispensation for the union. In Quebec, 85% Catholic, a combination of these facts has operated in recent years to the disadvantage of non-Catholics and their clergy. Many a mixed marriage, upon being declared null & void by church courts, has in turn been annulled by civil courts. To justify such annulments, many Catholics hold that...
...mixed marriage, performed by an Anglican minister, which was voided by Judge Alfred Forest, a Catholic, on the ground that the minister was incompetent to perform the marriage and because of a technicality about the witnesses. The Chief Justice, an Anglican, declared: "Such authority as the Church has in civil matters is given to it by the law of the land, and the Church and every church is subservient to and in no sense dominates the law. . . . Any church may bless or curse a marriage to its ecclesiastical heart's content but it does not in any way affect...
...justice to Producer Wanger, who at least had the nerve to approach an explosive theme. Blockade is no sensational polemic. U. S. cinemaddicts who are familiar with the history of Spain's Civil War may trace a similarity between certain incidents in the picture and the invasion of the Basque provinces, the arrival of the food ship Seven Seas Spray in Bilbao, and the air raids on Madrid and Barcelona. On the vast majority of U. S. cinemaddicts these verisimilitudes may well be lost, and Blockade will stand on its meagre merits as one more incident in the career...
...Nobody naturally spends a good deal of his time laughing. The nice thing about Nobody's laughter, and the first thing most readers will like about Cummings' poetry, is that it carries no offense, even when directed at close relations: my uncle Daniel fought in the civil war band and can play the triangle like the devil...