Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As Public Act No. 364 came across his desk for signing, Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff was reminded of the marriage vows and of the phrase, "in sickness and in health." The bill, as passed by the state legislature, would have permitted divorce from a spouse confined to a...
"It is reliably estimated," he wrote in his veto message, "that one out of ten persons born in the year 1955 will spend some time during his life in a mental institution. This widespread incidence of mental illness makes it imperative that every safeguard be established to insure that those...
"When people marry, they realize that there are potential periods in their lives when illness or other misfortunes may come their way. The marriage vows, 'in sickness and in health,' should have meaning ... It would indeed be a terrible society where a person could toss aside a wife...
Nightcap. In Los Angeles. Mrs. Anne Snoyer won an uncontested divorce after she testified that her husband habitually ate two or three raw onions while reading in bed at night.
Since then, Perón's police have arrested scores of priests and hundreds of Catholic laymen for showing "disrespect," distributing Catholic reading matter or taking part in Catholic demonstrations. His Congress has passed measures that 1) legalize divorce, 2) forbid outdoor religious gatherings, 3) banish religious instruction from...