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Despite a Supreme Court decision (TiME, June 4) which made quick divorce suspect in other states, Reno was booming - its hotels were jammed, workmen were building a $106,000 addition to the Washoe County Courthouse, and the divorce business was almost triple the mark of booming 1940. But Reno, and divorce mills like Miami and Hot Springs, Ark., no longer had a corner on the quick-divorce market. People were buying divorces every where almost as matter-of-factly as they had bought moonshine in the '20s. The U.S. divorce rate had virtually doubled since Pearl Harbor...
...National Insurance (industrial injuries) Bill. This is the Government's version of the Beveridge Plan for workmen's compensation. Opposition will come from Labor members who consider the suggested rates...
Last week Frenchmen got a grim report of progress in dealing with them. By last month's end, only one-tenth had been removed (by French workmen and German prisoners of war trained by U.S. sappers). The dangerous job would not be finished before...
Questions & Answers. Anxious, hopelessly confused, Jane decided to take the night train to David's country home. The London station was packed with weary soldiers, sailors, workmen, mothers and children. A friendly corporal appeared out of the yellow fog, and helped Jane through the milling crowd...
...great reform governors. To win that office (in 1910) he smashed the grip which the Southern Pacific had long held on California politics. After his victory, his father, the railroad's attorney, refused to speak to him for ten years. Hi Johnson, the rebel, went on to establish workmen's compensation, woman suffrage, the initiative, referendum and recall. In 1912 he entered national politics when he bolted the G.O.P. with Teddy Roosevelt...