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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the divorce rush in the Washoe County Court slacked off after Judges Moran and Curler had dissolved 83 marriages the first day at the rate of one every five minutes (TIME, May 11, et ante). Three divorcees remarried within the hour, one of them taking the Reno lawyer who had just secured her decree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Renovation | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Secretary Mellon and two vigorous Chicago citizens, Lawyer Silas Hardy Strawn, Chief U. S. Delegate to the Conference, and persuasive Melvin Alvah ("Mel") Traylor, president of Chicago's First National Bank, famed for his able work in setting up Europe's Bank for International Settlements (TIME Sept. 23, 1929, et...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Universal Crisis | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...representatives of seven countries sat down in Brussels and did something tangible about one problem. World Sugar. Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia. Belgium, Hungary, Java, Cuba signed and put into effect the Chadbourne Plan to limit production and export of sugar, restore sugar prices to a profitable basis (TIME, Aug. 18 et...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unique Expedition | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Bread & Gas. Panem et circenses, bread and circuses, were the prime requisites of happiness for the plebs of ancient Rome. Bread and gasoline are prime popular requisites today. Last week no wise Emperor but two ferocious price wars made bread and gas fantastically cheap in San Francisco-three loaves for 10? and 7? a gallon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...sale of the factory which made Liberty's cheap paper at Tonawanda, N. Y., to International Paper & Power Co. for $4,000,000. But the rumor that they would retire further from the publishing business, that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note to Managing Editor Edward Scott Beck, on the Tribune's bulletin board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: McC | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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