Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amended by the Lords and passed by both Houses, the Matrimonial Causes Bill extends the grounds for divorce in England from adultery-previously the sole ground-to include also: i) desertion without cause for three years or more; 2) cruelty; 3) incurable insanity if under treatment for at least five years. In hopes of applying brakes to hasty British couples bent on too-swift marriage, the bill provides that a husband & wife must remain married for at least three years before either can sue for divorce, though the courts are empowered to waive this restriction "in cases of exceptional hardship...
Military experts of the Great Powers, hitherto inclined to see Spain's Civil War professionally as a small testing ground for the latest lethal equipment, took some-what more interest last week as the "Battle of Madrid" (TIME, July 26) grew to an extremely desperate conflict between roughly 100,000 Leftists and 100,000 Rightists-not "big stuff" by World War standards, but biggish. Hitherto Rightist General Francisco Franco has mostly remained at Salamanca, his capital, filling the role of Rightist Spain's President, but last week he hurried to field headquarters. There, rubbing his hands with...
...Frenchman, and Antonio Hill, a German- weary from months of prospecting, stopped their pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last week, prepared to lay out claims. Driving the first claim-stake, the ground beneath their feet gave way and the trio dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Before their startled eyes stood 35 gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold and relics of the days of the Spanish conquistadors. Stumbling along the shaft...
...meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing far off their courses to avoid thunderheads but motorless Pilot du Pont had just the opposite idea in mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over Harris Hill, he guided his ship directly into a thunderhead, rode along inside it for an hour during which...
...utility company's prospectus for an issue of first-mortgage bonds. Of most of its 2.100 words he observed that "the instructions [SEC's] not only permit but invite the omission of such detail." offered in comparison a model prospectus of his own covering the same ground in 250 words. C. "Silly," said Western Union Telegraph Co.'s dour old Vice President John Calvin Willever last week of newspaper reports that Western Union and Postal Telegraph were about to be prosecuted for violation of the anti-trust laws. Prudence, said Mr. Willever, had dictated that in some...