Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strident clang of the county clerk's cash register Nevada last week went on its new divorce schedule. Reno did its biggest business in the 67 years of the State's lax divorce law. Ever since the Legislature last March reduced the residence period from three months to six weeks, the city has been filling up with married women "to take the cure" (TIME, March 30, et ante...
...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 of Reno, for under the Nevada code they are all free to practice civil law. Newshawks scramble'd fran- tically to scribble down the names of famed divorce seekers. Divorce petitions filed the first day of the new law totaled...
Competition in the divorce market has led Nevada to adopt the most distinctive measures. All records have fallen by the wayside under the new rulings, in effect yesterday morning, by which divorce may be secured in six weeks and fourteen minutes, easily half the time of the closest rival. Efficiency supreme, with magistrates rising at 6 o'clock to prepare for the day's actions, and gambling extreme, by the newest laws, have brought all the sheep into the fold, while wolves of one sort or another have gathered for the killing...
...chariot, he may find a way to balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that he will sail next month to confer with Dr. Soong...
...Rocky Mountain States, plus Alaska. Alaska gave $3,115.02. New York's $2,321,835.75 was a trifle more than the total of the States between the Rockies and the River. No State other than Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California, gave more than $500,000. Nevada (lowest State) gave $5,414.75. Judge Payne said that the Red Cross has helped 2,000,000 persons with food, clothing or other relief...