Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their lineal chief, strapping, handsome, Oxford-trained Seretse Khama, 27, sat among them as they weighed his choice for wife & queen. While studying law in England, Seretse had married Ruth Williams, 24, a fair-haired London typist. By Bamangwato custom the Chief may wed only with the consent of tribal elders. Seretse had not asked for such consent. He was summoned home to defend his action before the Bamangwato peers...
...mixed-up divorce laws there was, in the bitter words of one justice, "no longer any divorce law in the U.S." In one wage-hour ruling-that workers must be paid for time spent getting ready to work and walking through the plant to their jobs ("regardless of contrary custom or contract")-they had opened a trap door under thousands of business firms. Congress had to rush to the rescue with legislation...
Perhaps there is something to the custom of marriage that we have overlooked. Perhaps those silver company advertisements have an element of truth to them. Or perhaps boys who have done their travelling courtesy of the U. S. Army are ready to settle down to being staid. But nevertheless, it strikes us as a step which deserves some consideration. Be careful, graduates, for you are in the shadow of a catastrophe. Let not the door close on you too easily, lest your A.B. be brought to nothing...
Traditional Class Night ceremonies are on the docket tonight in Radcliffe Yard. According to custom, seniors march up Radcliffe Yard from Long-mencement marching and seating. fellow Hall to Agassiz House under an arch of Chinese lanterns held by junior ushers...
General Douglas MacArthur usually sloughs off Soviet gibes at his occupation policies with silent, five-starred disdain. Last week he broke with custom, made a sharp reply to the latest official Russian blast against him-a letter from Lieut. General Kuzma N. Derevyanko, Soviet member of the Allied Council for Japan...