MONTANA: 30 Days

Since 1931 the quickest U. S. treatment for unhappy marriage has been Renovation (divorce in Nevada) which requires six weeks' residence. Last week on Valentine's Day the rugged (and strongly Roman Catholic) State of Montana set up a rival divorce market when its Senate passed (35 to 18) a lower-house bill, which Governor Roy E. Ayers was sure to sign, requiring residence of only 30 days for divorcers, on broad grounds from incompatibility to insanity.

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