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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to or corrective of news previously published in TIME...
Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...
Directors of the State Bank of Chicago, faced with the decision either to remain a parochial institution or to become a diocese, even a metropolitan power, decided last week. They chose Ralph Van Vechten (brother of Author Carl Van Vetchen) their president...
...where she will reside. Mr. Cravath will continue to live at his present residence in New York and at his country place at Locust Valley, L. I. "In answer to a further inquiry, Mr. de Gersdorff and Mr. Sullivan said that a divorce was not contemplated or desired by either party...
...disintegrated Washington club, American League champions for the last two years, has been barely able to clamber out of the second half of the league. The team is surfeited with old men, retaining by far the oldest aggregation in either league, their average ages being 32. The Chicago Americans are the youngest team making any showing this year. Last year's world champions, the Pittsburgh Pirates, average 29 years. Commonly supposed to be a young team, the Philadelphia Athletics are in reality far remote from puberty. Babe Adams, 44, is the oldest player in either league and still pitches...