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...week New York tipped the national balance against "common law" marriages 2540-23 by legislating them out of existence. Governor Lehman signed a bill which decreed that hereafter no marriage within the State shall be valid unless solemnized by a clergyman or a civil officer. The measure does not disturb those already living in informal wedlock. Its advocates predicted that it would strip "golddiggers" of their strongest weapon in claiming a widow's right in a dead man's estate. Its opponents feared it would work hardship upon ignorant, simple women who thought they were getting married...
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Await admitted that his office had known about Harriman irregularities as long ago as July 23 but that prosecutions were delayed in the hope of salvaging deposits. The Treasury hesitated ("in the public interest") to act lest it disturb the already critical banking situation...
...drink beer? Yes 86 84 159 104 133 175 132 412 1285 No 17 12 70 21 21 15 25 138 319 2. Would a quart of non-intoxicating 3.2 beer, drunk with meals: Put you under the table? 2 8 16 6 12 16 7 42 109 Disturb the Waitress? 12 7 22 7 19 32 9 75 183 Improve the taste of University food? 72 69 141 86 110 137 120 394 1129 3. If Cambridge ordinances permit, do you favor the service of beer in University dining halls...
...Governor. When he gives a grand reception and one of the guests is a handsome brunette named Senora Martinez (Mona Maris), it comes out amazingly that John has been philandering. Even more amazingly it turns out that Mary has known about it all along. The scandal fails to disturb, for more than a moment, John's happy relations with his wife, fails even to disrupt his campaign for Governor. He has won it, been elected to the U. S. Senate and served in Washington for 30 years by the time his wife explains to their children about the secrets...
Preconceptions were jogged out of routine thinking last night. The audience was nervous and tense, the perfect approach for hearing something real. Mr. Walter Piston of the Music Department of dear old Harvard was the first to disturb the equilibrium. Some of his music in the suite for orchestra, written in the heyday of 1929, was slightly rough. His jazz was positively brutal, but there wasn't enough of it to drug his listeners into any sort of acquiescent mood. He is young and has ideas. I wonder if he is quite good for Harvard boys. He might teach them...