Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleased and proud was many a Reno divorcee to learn that the judge who had freed her-George A. Bartlett of the Washoe County District Court-had last week been renominated for another four-year term. In the Nevada primary Judge Bartlett had led Benjamin J. Curler, one-time judge, by a majority so large as to assure his re-election in November. Well did each divorcee recall Judge Bartlett's warm friendly chambers on the second floor of the ornate courthouse where her decree had been granted-the pictures of the judge's family and dogs...
...judges make Reno famed for its divorces. Most petitioners prefer Judge Bartlett to Judge Thomas F. Moran, who is reputed to dig too deep into marital conditions, to quibble over the custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly...
...Massachusetts. The actual court costs of a divorce are about $40. Lawyers' fees average from $250 to $10,000 in uncontested cases, depending on the wealth of each client. Exclusive of railroad fare, a woman if she is careful, can legally rid herself of an objectionable husband at Reno for about...
Married. Vivian Duncan, dancer (punched in the eye two weeks ago, TIME, Aug. 4); to Nils Asther, Swedish film star; in Reno...
Died. Hazel Lee Roberts Johnson, 36, daughter of famed Mayor-Judge Edwin Ewing Roberts of Reno, Nev., wife of Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, famed oldtime baseball pitcher, now manager of the Washington "Senators"; of pleurisy after a short illness; in Washington...