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situation are those who don't want you to use your maiden name. “All right, call me the other name if it's simpler for you. It's perfectly all right.”
It can be seen how people made up stories like that. They just imagine that something like that must have happened. It never did happen. Call it breeding if you want to, but well-bred people don't go around making a nuisance of themselves.
We had a pleasant little time with the insurance company. The only solemn legal opinion there is in existence about women keeping their own name emanated from the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of New Jersey. Shortly after our marriage - within a few months of our marriage - my husband first wanted to make over a policy which he already had to me as beneficiary; second, he wanted to take out another policy - more insurance; and third, it was recommended, as I was earning, that I take out life insurance. So each of us wished to make the other the beneficiary of the policy. On the policy Paul C. Wilson was the insured and the beneficiary was his wife, Frances Perkins. That was quite a stickler for the lawyers of the Mutual Benefit of New Jersey. The insurance agent was a nice man named Mr. Willard Urmston in New York. He wasn't sure how it could be worked. He would his best with companies.
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