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...marry, what persons shall be competent to perform marriage ceremonies. These laws are generally considered directory, not mandatory, and a marriage outside the statutory law−i.e., under common or unwritten law−is by implication a legal exception, quite valid if the faith and intent behind the contract are good. Common-law marriages are recognized by the courts of most of the older States east of the Mississippi. Some of the newer States by statute expressly prohibit such unions. No nonstatutory marriage can be positively stamped as valid until its special circumstances have been reviewed by a competent court...
Certain aspects of their contract with their men are very interesting. Men must be American citizens, twenty-one years of age or over, and unmarried. It is understood that the first term is for three years, during which time a man does not marry and goes to such parts of the Orient as may be determined by the Company. At the end of three years he has an extended furlough, is permitted to visit the United States, and in many cases men on such furloughs cease to be bachelors...
...ever since, the sale of Germany's Opel Motor Works to General Motors last week became a fact. As in many a domestic merger, the emphasis given denials forecast a deal of large proportions. Thus, last week, no less than three presidents journeyed to Wiesbaden* to sign the contract. They were: the President of General Motors Corp. (Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.); the President of General Motors Export Co. (James David Mooney); the President of Fisher Bodies Corp. (Frederick J. Fisher), chief of the seven money-minting Fisher brothers...
...CRIMSON, Mr. Kent in his studio high in the Adirondacks announced that he had instructed his New York lawyers formally to demand of the Harvard School of Business Administration the entire sum of the prize rather than allow Marcus and Co. to forward it to him. His contract, he further stated, with this concern for the designing of advertisements expired recently...
...book publishers replied with prompt asperity that the Institution directors had their wits about them when they signed the contract, that the Smithsonian's scientific writers were receiving $47,000 pay for their efforts and the Institution, for merely lending its scientists and its name, would reap $43,750 on the first edition alone; when the second edition (at $150) is offered the general public, royalties would be enormous...