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Uberrima Fides. Widow Green's lawyers answered that the prenuptial agreement is not valid because 1) it was not properly executed; 2) under Texas law such a pact is against public policy of the State; 3) circumstances which attended the signing render it invalid. Under the doctrine of uberrima fides (utmost good faith) common law presumes that there is a relationship of confidence between the parties entering into such an agreement and there must be the fullest disclosure by the pact's proponent of its nature and legal effect. Widow Green told Surrogate Owen at an initial probate...
...these days of changing social, economic and political values," Sears, Roebuck's President Robert E. Wood wrote to stockholders last week, "it seems worth while in this annual report ... to render an account of your management's stewardship, not merely from the viewpoint of financial reports, but also along the lines of those general broad social responsibilities which cannot be presented mathematically." Mathematically for the No. 1 U. S. mail order house, 1936 scarcely could have been better. Sears enjoyed the best year in its history. So did its older and smaller rival, Montgomery Ward & Co., which reported...
Principal event on the schedule is a joint performance with the Radcliffe Choral Society at Town Hall at New York, on Saturday evening. A chorus of 130 will render seven selections. The Principal one will be "Tarantella; Mater, Ades", from Ovid's "Fasti", by Elliott Carter '30. This will be the first time that it has ever been performed. Other selections include part of Schubert's "Valses Nobles", "Of Doming Jean Christe" by Josquin des Pres, and the first American performance of "Two Religious songs", by a Spanlarn, Antonio do Cahezon...
...gutter, gets turned down when he tries to reenlist, finally gets one more chance to play his trumpet in an orchestra run by a kind-hearted crony (Charles Butterworth). He is on the point of fumbling this assignment also when Maggie, still loyal, reappears, sobers him up enough to render their old specialty...
There are, however, subtle distinctions, recognizable upon more careful examination, which render, we believe with pardonable complacency, a real difference in desirability as college living quarters. It must be clearly understood that we do not believe a Freshman definitely places himself at a disadvantage for the remainder of his college career by choosing a House other than Dunster. There are numerous examples of residents of the other six Houses who appear to be reasonably happy and contented young...