Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filing day Clerk Beemer of Washoe County opened his office at 6 a. m. for the rush. A representative from every one of Reno's 130 law firms jostled into line to file one or more petitions for clients seeking release from marital ties. Clang! went the cash register 30 times per hour as $20 was rung up for each petition. Clang! it went again as another $10 was deposited with the answer to each uncontested action. In the line of lawyers were the U. S. District Attorney. Nevada's Attorney General, the local District Attorney and the Mayor...
...office places at the disposal of undergraduates a file of material relating to the various career and professions. Questionnaires have been sent to certain members of the faculty, doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and graduates in other branches of business or the professions. These men have specified on the questionnaires the nature of their activity during each working half-hour of the two-week period, and are willing to amplify their views in personal interviews with undergraduates. Unsigned, these records specify such matters as salary, congeniality of surroundings, amount of "pull" needed to enter upon the given career, and in some cases...
This action rank-&-file Laborites hope and suspect is the prelude to a request by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden for a two-year moratorium on the British debt to the U. S. Last week's moratorium rewards the Australian Government for its prompt action three weeks ago in making good to British bondholders the default of New South Wales (TIME, April...
Seeking Divorce? William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, fisticuffer; from Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey, cinemactress; in Reno, Nev. whither he went for a "rest." Said he: "We've had a scrap. I might file a divorce action. ... It depends mostly on letters I've written to her. ... I want to patch the thing up. ... But I want a home, a family and family life...
...white, went to Mother Catherine for "cures." Her apostles searched them at the wooden gate for weapons. The unarmed entered, had a pinch of salt dropped in a palm, which they lapped up and made a wish for Mother Catherine's help. "Saints" lined up the applicants. The file approached the altar where stood stout Mother Catherine, adorned by a white headdress and a starched apron with the word MOTHER embroidered in red across its bib. On a side table was a huge brown bottle of warm castor oil, which she had blessed, and a bowl of quartered lemons...