Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Within a few days Mrs. Ernest Simpson, of Baltimore, Md., U. S. A., will obtain her divorce decree in England, and some eight months thereafter she will be married to Edward VIII, King of England...
...proved Mr. A. unfaithful and secured her decree nisi, may receive at any time within six months a fearsome summons accusing her of infidelity herself. Then, if she cannot disprove the evidence of the Crown, the judge cannot make her decree absolute and Mr. & Mrs. A. never thereafter can obtain a divorce in England...
...Batten plan, declared Mr. Thornley, was a "program by which certain of the corporation's stockholders, to the disadvantage of the others, would be privileged to obtain control of the company by use of the company's funds...
...divorce suit against Mr. Simpson in the rural Ipswich Court of Assizes. Under English law, she must appear in court and prove that she is herself of good character, for in England, if it can be shown that husband and wife have each committed adultery, then neither can obtain a divorce. This feature of the law has been described as Holy Deadlock and supplied the title for a novel of that name by Funster A. P. Herbert...
Undergraduates may obtain tickets on presentation of their Bursar's Cards at Hunt Hall...