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...arrested Loyalist Governor William Franklin, last week adopted a new constitution that provides for a bicameral legislature to elect a relatively powerless Governor. Only 26 of the 65 legislators voted for the measure (30 abstained and 9 opposed), however, and even they insisted that the document would be null and void in case of a reconciliation with Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Troubled Transfer of Power | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...this Frenchman who rates an alexandrine above iambic pentameter and dares insult the memory of William Shakespeare? Self-exiled on the shores of Lake Geneva, Francois-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire, the author of the satire Candide, is preparing a missive on that matter for the Academic null He plans to ridicule his countrymen's Anglophilia, specifically a recent translation of Shakespeare that praises the English playwright as a "creative divinity." Ironically, it was Voltaire, now 82, who promoted the craze when in 1734 he made the first translations of Shakespeare into French. Now he is alarmed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1976 | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...Marion Justin Reinhardt, judge of the Brooklyn tribunal: "If two people really cannot live together, there must be some reason why not, and it should be up to us to find that reason. If we find it existed at the time of the marriage, then that marriage must be null and void. No body must oblige himself to do what he cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Church Divided | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

Besides compensatory damages of $250,000 and punitive damages of $750,000, the suit asks that records of the plaintiffs' arrests be destroyed and that the arrests themselves be declared "null and void" in order to allow all those arrested "to assert that he or she has not been 'arrested' within the reasonable and lawful meaning of the term...

Author: By Nathaniel R. Howard iii, | Title: Pro-Busing Groups File Suit, Say ROAR, Police Conspired | 10/7/1975 | See Source »

...holder of Walston stock. She charged that Perot and his partners seized control of the firm in order to use its capital to cut their multimillion-dollar losses in duPont Glore Forgan. into which they had poured at least $65 million. She asked the court to declare the semimerger null and void and to put both Walston and duPont Glore Forgan into receivership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: The Perils of Perot | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

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