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...commission of adultery is usually omitted by the husband, whose mood is apt to be one of bitterness at a divorce system which many British jurists and prelates have denounced as "revolting" and "unfair." Last week Mrs. Simpson filed such a divorce suit against Mr. Simpson in the rural Ipswich Court of Assizes. Under English law, she must appear in court and prove that she is herself of good character, for in England, if it can be shown that husband and wife have each committed adultery, then neither can obtain a divorce. This feature of the law has been described...
...Ipswich the judge who will hear the Simpson suit this week is jovial, golfing Sir John Anthony Hawke, who was for five years attached to the present King in the capacity of Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Assuming that Sir John grants the divorce, any technical flaw in this decision can be discovered only by another of Edward VIII's officials, the King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges...
...firm of Trollope in Belgrave Square. Among journalistic employes of British newspapers indignation at the suppression of the Simpson story was overwhelming last week and these minions, in open defiance of their employers, the Press Lords, gave every assistance they could to U. S. correspondents covering the case. At Ipswich the local authorities told British reporters whom they suspected of aiding their U. S. colleagues. "You are warned to desist...
...Thurs.--Headquarters, Holworthy 1. Fri.--Dinner at Isaac R. Thomas', Monstone Farm, Ipswich...
Another interesting fact in the history of Harvard is that after the settlement of John Hancock's estate, that worthy gentleman, who graduated in 1754, and was a former treasurer of the corporation, still owed $526 to the college. According to Reverend Carroll Perry of Ipswich, who wrote an essay on Hancock, the latter was also very unsatisfactory in his administration of his alma mater's finances, and the result was that Hancock's reputation as patriot and statesman has suffered with many people. However, the Reverend Perry attributed this unsatisfactory administration to the fact that Hancock, during his stewardship...