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...student counselors asked for a writ of mandamus to allow Dailey to vote in the elections next week, while City Solicitor Evarts, on behalf of the local commission, maintained that the third-year man was not intending to reside here...
Said Amos to Andy: "Dis lady was tellin' me dat de lady what writ Gone Wid de Win is gointa write a squeal, twice as big and twice as long." Delighted Atlantans rushed to telephone Author Margaret Mitchell Marsh, talked instead to Husband John R. Marsh. Said he: "You can tell Amos and Andy she isn't working on a 'squeal' or a 'sequel...
...thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house. . . . Today, as in ancient times, a good Orthodox Jew or his agent obtains a religious divorce by handing his wife or her agent a get (writ of divorcement) before a rabbi. But many another Jew gets a civil divorce or deserts his wife, without bothering to give her the get which, religiously at least, sets her free. This leaves the woman an agunah, neither wife, maid nor widow, who cannot remarry in the synagog...
...defense of the redbud rushed two equally determined Oklahoma clubwomen. Mrs. Virgil Browne, president of the Interclub Forum, declared that the redbud and Judas tree "aren't technically the same," cited an Oklahoma City clergyman as authority for the simple fact that Holy Writ does not specify where Judas hanged himself. More deductively to Mrs. Lawson wrote Mrs. S. I. Flournoy, State chairman of the Daughters of the American Revolution: "I've heard of people hanging themselves from a lot of things, including chandeliers, but I should think if anybody wanted to kill himself he'd pick...
...promptly issued a temporary order for them to evacuate. But the example of the automobile sit-downers in Flint (TIME, Feb. 15) had taught the Fansteel men to pay no attention to the court. Just as Flint's Judge Paul V. Gadola had done, Judge Dady issued a writ for the sitters' arrest. This time there was no Governor Murphy to tell the sheriff to ignore...