Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oklahoma .611 Nevada...
With these two excerpts the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. last week officially showed its displeasure with the recent six-to-two decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ordering all States to recognize Nevada's easy divorces (TIME, Jan. 4). Issued by Benedictine Monk Edgar Schmiedeler, director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference's Family Life Bureau, the Church's statement hewed to the customary Catholic line that marriage is a vow taken before God and not to be set aside by courts...
...Nevada divorce mill ground out another decree, like thousands before and since. Middle-aged O. B. Williams and Mrs. Lillie Shaver Hendrix stopped six weeks at a Las Vegas auto camp to qualify for residence. They divorced their former spouses and were married. Back in North Carolina, a strange homecoming awaited them: each was convicted of bigamous cohabitation and sentenced to jail...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court set aside their conviction and instructed every State to recognize Nevada divorces. For the Williamses, for uncounted* Smiths, Joneses, Thompsons, for Elliott Roosevelt, Barbara Hutton and Edgar Rice Burroughs, a six-week divorce became as valid in strait-laced North Carolina as in tolerant Nevada...
...alone, 6,430 divorce suits were filed in Nevada. It seems safe to assume that all were granted...