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Insurance laws provide that a policy is void if the holder commits suicide within one year from the time he took out the policy. Because suicides have increased alarmingly since the Depression, big insurance companies are agitating to up the suicide clause to two years...
...eight days after the landing. Passenger Reiner sent ten messages to N.A. N. A. When he sued for payment at $500 per message the news agency offered in defense that Passenger Reiner had broken his promise to the airship operators, that his contract to send messages was morally void. Last week the New York State Court of Appeals upheld N. A. N. A.'s defense, passed lightly over the agency's part in the alleged "fraud & deceit" thus: "The plaintiff's complaint that the defendant treated him as he had treated others falls upon deaf ears...
...effect on the uninformed is to give the impression that marriage between a white and a Negro is legal in California. You are referred to Sec. 60. Civil Code of California: "All marriages of white persons with Negroes. Mongolians, or Mulattoes, are illegal and void...
...same were contracted, are valid in this State." This, however, is a principle of law which has been in effect in most English-speaking countries for centuries and is not peculiar to California. You will note that the first section referred to makes the marriages mentioned "illegal and void.'' They are thus classed with incestuous and bigamous marriages and are distinct from those marriages which are merely voidable and which may be annulled and from those marriages which may be dissolved by a decree of divorce. In other words California does so mind these unions of Negro...
...stretch of the imagination, an historic oration. But it did have one great quality?earnestness?and with that alone the Speaker was able to sweep the House back to order and action. The Ways & Means Committee hastily evolved a new set of tax schemes to fill the void left by the Sales Tax. Leaders of the late insurgency fell over themselves to pledge support to this substitute program. United by the Garner speech and perhaps a little mortified at its earlier behavior, the House buckled down and adopted that program before the lobbies of interested industries could swing into action...