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Today the French courts obey their new instructions and have tightened up their recent laxity in granting divorces to foreigners. The first notable test case under the new regime came up, last week, when onetime (1920-21) U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby sought to obtain a divorce at Versailles. Rich, potent and himself a lawyer, Mr. Colby had retained to present his case that most distinguished of avocats onetime (1920-24) President of France Alexandre Millerand...
...seemed, "suffered agonies from the capricious treatment" of Mrs. Colby. She was represented as a "fantastic novelist" who had ridiculed in her works both Mr. Colby and the late Warren Gamaliel Harding. Cried M. Millerand, "she has driven her husband to seek refuge in France, here to obtain freedom and the opportunity to begin a new life...
...Pineapples" are convenient, effective and easy to obtain in Chicago, where bomb-making has almost the status of an industry. "Our people are being terrorized," said President Frank Joseph Loesch of the Chicago Crime Commission last week. Police Chief Hughes could only say, "I'm helpless. . . . If I had 3,000 more policemen we could stop those bombers...
Though neither of the Big Two has of itself a majority, Premier Baron Tanaka professed and was generally conceded the ability to obtain the few minority votes which he needs to carry on, according to the official returns. The great facts are two: 1) This was the first Japanese election under the new suffrage law which increased the number of the electorate from 3,000,000 to some 12,000,000; 2) Of this new electorate 81% went to the polls and returned only two predominating parties...
...decorated, depends on a number of considerations, of which the design of the type is perhaps the most important. It is no exaggeration to say that in no printed book between the closing years of the fifteenth century and those of the nineteenth was any attempt made to obtain them...