Word: null
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into control of the House, left Republicans with a two-vote margin in the Senate. On New Year's Day 1935 the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Robert Emmett Quinn, took matters in his own hands. As the Senate's presiding officer, he declared the election of two Republicans null & void, installed two Democrats in their places. To form a quorum he had State troopers force three other Republicans to remain in the chamber. Thus equipped with a Democratic majority, in 14½ minutes he whipped through a series of astounding reforms intended to break the Republicans' hold...
...inherited a share (estimated at $3,500,000) of his estate; by Mrs. Virginia de Landa, his daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. In her petition, Mrs. de Landa charged Mrs. Willys with divorcing her first husband on fraudulent grounds, asked that her marriage to Willys be declared null & void, that she be enjoined from claiming any part of Willys' estate...
...Epiphany (Feb. 2) to the 25th Sunday after Pentecost (Nov. 22), Chicago Catholics will hear sermons on matters like the contract of matrimony, the arrangements and external solemnity of marriage, the canonical impediments thereto, mixed marriages, divorce, birth control, abortion, the conditions under which marriages may be valid or null & void. ¶ In St. Louis was published For Better...
...made registration easy, insisting that filing will not impair the powermen's right to challenge the Act's constitutionality at a later date. Last week in a final effort to woo the industry under the wire Chairman Landis offered to accept "conditional" registration which would be null & void should the courts eventually find that the powermen had really surrendered their constitutional rights by filing. Pointedly hinting at the serious liabilities involved if the Act were upheld, SEC wheedled: "No possible ground in reason remains for any company to fail to file a simple notification and registration under these...
Meanwhile Il Duce had batches of musty treaties and agreements dug up by his Foreign Office to prove that Italy can treat whatever Fat Chaps has been granted as null and void...