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Marriage contracts are usual in Europe, but are practically always accompanied by religious or civil ceremonies. Lawyer Delson recommends his find for deaf-mutes because such contracts require no words, take but 35 sec. to sign. They should also appeal to Quakers, Mennonites and other sectarians who dislike to swear oaths. Nevertheless Bride McGraw and Groom Mallina did by no means avoid Godliness. Their contract stipulated that it was as good as a religious ceremony, and day after they signed it they repaired, for a short philosophic talk, to the home of famed Columbia Professor John Dewey, who believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Contract Marriage | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...taking over the whole scheme, or one like it, and attempting to carry it through with a dope addict's overweening confidence in himself. To frantic Mme Chiang, who was with great difficulty prevented from flying to Sian from Nanking, the gallant young Marshal telegraphed: "Before God, I swear I have not harmed anybody. Therefore you need not worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator Kidnapped | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Young Blake (Freddie Bartholomew), wharf-rat nephew of a Yarmouth ginshop hostess, and young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Navigation, had a hand in framing many a present-day naval policy. Spry and trim, he belies his 61 years, but the seams in his face are eloquent of years at sea. Navy men who admire his prodigious physical endurance swear that they are not exaggerating when they tell how he once stayed on his bridge for six weeks during fleet maneuvers, relaxing only to take short catnaps. When he takes over his new office he will be no stranger to Washington. He maintains a residence there, has gone there whenever his duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leahy for Standley | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Suddenly from loudspeakers near the microphone came a familiar golden voice in all its natural resonance. There was no mistaking it. It was the voice of Franklin Roosevelt himself and it said: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office as President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Record on Record | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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