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...York alimony law which is revealed by the letters in your May 22 issue. It is hard to believe that this attitude is typical of modern American women. Surely there are others besides myself who look on marriage not as a perpetual meal ticket, but rather as a mutual contract in which each party agrees to contribute to the common good. Except for those cases where a woman continues her contribution even after divorce in the form of caring for her former husband's children, I cannot see why a man should be expected to support a woman...
...airplane builder in earnest, he had his factory running full blast in 1912, producing planes for barnstormers and intrepid sportsmen. As early as 1913 he got the first of the government contracts on which he has since thrived. In 1917 came the first of the Martin bombers, first U. S.-designed airplane for Liberty engines. Since the War, Martin has produced hundreds of patrol boats and torpedo planes for the Navy, bombers for the Army, from his former Cleveland factory and his superb new plant near Baltimore. An unsuccessful mail plane was Martin's only non-military venture lately...
Reporter Hill will be occasionally available to Hearst's International News Service to report momentous news. He was drafted immediately to cover the Morgan examination in Washington. His contract permits him to continue broadcasting...
President: Never mind. I'd like to get your bunch under contract for a performance once a week. How about...
...petition is being circulated today in Weld boathouse to W. J. Bingham, '16. director of Athletics, requesting that Edward Wachter, sculling coach and basketball coach, be retained next year to teach sculling. Wachter's contract was not renewed by the Athletic Association, and certain graduate students who have rowed under him during the past twelve years request his reinstatement next year. The petition points out the growth of popularity of sculling during Wachter's time as coach until now there are more participants in it than in any other minor sport...