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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Carolina, the only state where divorce is now prohibited, voted to amend its 53-year-old constitutional ban, permit divorce on grounds of physical cruelty, desertion, habitual drunkenness or adultery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Kansas Capitulation | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Last fortnight, after an unidentified plane buzzed his mosquito-bitten border towns, the dictator ordered his armed AT6 trainers to patrol the Costa Rican border, to shoot down intruders on sight. "I will permit no more violations of the national territory," he thundered. Just in case the Legion should make Honduras the road to Nicaragua, Tacho deployed 500 National Guardsmen along his northern frontier, sent 200 right into Honduras to help his friend Carias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: I'm the Champ | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Overhead. In Little Rock, Ark., City Clerk R. A. Lange patiently explained to an applicant that before he could get a permit to build "a $15 chicken coop, he would have to submit a set of blueprints costing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...rudeness. Last week, gossips in Managua (and Washington, too) were telling how, when Shaw left, Somoza had leaned back in his chair and roared with laughter. "Well," boomed Tacho, "I guess we won't have a free press in Nicaragua any more. The U.S. ambassador won't permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Meet the Press | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...straw vote was taken in 1944, because the Army and Navy refused to permit politics to be mentioned in the Service News, wartime substitute for the CRIMSON...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Polls College Today On Presidency | 10/27/1948 | See Source »

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