Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, 28; by Thalia Fortescue Massie, 23; in Reno. Two years ago in Honolulu Mrs. Massie was attacked by five natives, one of whom Lieut. Massie and his mother-in-law kidnapped, later shot to death. Defended by Clarence Darrow, Lieut. Massie was convicted of manslaughter, but sentence was commuted (TIME, May 16, 1932). Grounds for the divorce: extreme mental cruelty, "no connection with the murder case." Three days after the divorce Mrs. Massie was in a Reno hospital, under treatment for acute alcoholism...
...years ago Poland's Reno was a small Calvinist church in Wilno. So brisk was its business that several bishops were tried and fined for bootlegging divorces. The traffic passed to the Orthodox Church, proceeded scandalously. The usual method of getting a divorce was to pay some clergyman 500 zlotys ($90). In Warsaw alone 1,200 divorces were granted during the past two years...
Married. Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden); and Gerald F. Warburg, second son of Banker Felix M. Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), grandson of the late Jacob H. Schiff; in Manhattan. Mr. Warburg was lately divorced in Reno by Marion Bab Warburg...
Married. Anna Hope Dale Biddle, 31, footloose Philadelphia socialite; and William Starling Burgess, 54, yacht & airplane designer, builder of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup defender Enterprise, co-designer of the Dymaxion car; in Reno, immediately after she divorced Edward M. Biddle, Philadelphia lawyer, on grounds of cruelty. Returning from a spectacular Alaskan jaunt some two years ago, Mrs. Biddle complained that her friends snubbed her, called her a "hellcat'' for leaving her husband and three small children. It was Mr. Burgess' fourth marriage...
Divorced. Charles Coudert Nast, lawyer, politician, son of Publisher Condé Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden); by Charlotte Brown Nast, Manhattan socialite; in Reno. Grounds: extreme cruelty...