Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farwell Ayer of Boston; by Mrs. Helen Draper Taft Ayer, niece of the late Governor Eben S. Draper of Massachusetts, onetime wife of Waldbridge Smith Taft who is a son of New York's famed Lawyer Henry Waters Taft and a nephew of the late President & Chief Justice; at Reno. Charge: incompatibility...
...wife arrives at Reno for a divorce generally under instructions from her personal attorney at home who refers her to his "correspondent" in the city. Reno's biggest law firm: (William) Woodburn & (George B.) Thatcher. Residence is immediately established in a housekeeping apartment or at the smart comfortable Riverside Hotel. Excessively exclusive folk go to the TH dude ranch 30 miles away, or to Mounte Crese ranch 18 miles away. Loneliness soon vanishes in the colony's common purpose. Di versions are plentiful. Fashionable gam bling, dancing, drinking are wide-open. Such roadhouses as the Willows...
...hearing does not take more than 15 minutes. Judge Bartlett has a quick comprehension of marital troubles, needs few details. Children and property cause no hitch, providing the husband and wife have agreed on these matters in advance. If a defendant refuses to accept service or to appoint a Reno attorney to represent him, the plaintiff must wait an additional 40 days (not necessarily in Nevada) when a decree can be granted by default. If a defendant comes to Reno, vigorously contests a case, divorces can be obtained in Nevada with no more ease than elsewhere...
Monday at Reno is known as "graduation day" because on that day divorces are handed. Some women pay an extra $2 to have their decrees certified and tied up with an official ribbon. Only mythical is the tradition that a divorced woman on leaving the Washoe County courthouse gratefully kisses a pillar of its colonnade. Monday night the Reno station is crowded with happy ladies catching the Union Pacific's Limited east to Chicago and a new freedom...
Divorce Rumored. Mildred Zukor Loew (now in Reno), daughter of President Adolph Zukor of Paramount-Famous-Lasky; from Arthur M. Loew, vice president of Loew's, Inc., son of the late Film Producer Marcus Loew...