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The Canadian Parliament's least happy duty is to act as a divorce court for the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland. It is an arrangement originally made as a concession to populous Roman Catholic Quebec, which frowns on divorce and declines to establish a court of its own. The...
Eccles' story was that he had originally agreed to give his wife Lise an "amicable divorce" in return for withdrawal of her demand for $240 a month for support. But now, he said, his wife was making it difficult for him to see their nine-year-old son, and...
He spoke up in the nick of time. The Senate had already favorably concluded its investigation of Lise's "prayer for relief," and passed it on for the Commons' rubber stamp. Her evidence, which varied only in details from the testimony often offered in New York courts: a...
The Eccles confession hit Ottawa in the midst of a campaign by a small band of Socialist M.P.s to end parliamentary divorces. They have filibustered on every divorce bill before the House this session, hoping to force a change in the law. A House subcommittee summoned the cast of the...
Self-Service. In Detroit. Carmen Eccles could not understand why a man entered her bakery shop carrying a 4-ft. steel pole with a hook on the end, soon got the message when he thrust it across the display case, successfully snatched her purse.