Word: fortnightlies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebellion was crushed in 1902, the British had tried generosity. The constitution of the new Union of South Africa provided for a Senate with equal membership from each of the four provinces in the Union. It is this equilibrium which is threatened by the Senate-packing bill introduced a fortnight ago by Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom (TIME...
Occasion: the funeral, at Arlington National Cemetery, of one of Marshall's predecessors as Army Chief of Staff, General Charles P. Summerall, who died last fortnight...
...fortnight ago, with many prices overinflated, the inevitable shake-out came: the stock index tumbled from 333 to 279, with some losses up to 30%; Esso fell to 77,000 francs as brokers crowded outside the Bourse, where much of the trading goes on (see cut}. But it was not the dreaded le krach, and it did not last long...
Four days later, in the biggest bomb shell of news to rock the nation since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...
Peron & Co. kept up the pressure. In the city of Eva Peron, police locked up 15 leading Catholic laymen, bringing to 60-odd the total jailed in various cities within a fortnight. Half a dozen priests were arrested, making a total of three dozen jailed since the conflict broke out last October. The Argentine Senate passed a bill to end the property-tax exemptions of churches, parochial schools and other denominational institutions. Both houses voted to abolish religious instruction in public schools. The Peronista legislators were unanimous, but the minuscule Radical Party minority in the Chamber (the Senate...