Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission last fortnight took from railroad owners and officials, their families, servants and friends, a most cherished privilege?the right to gad about the country free in a private...
...David ("Ernest Willie") Upshaw, had been the interviewed, not the interviewer, as he hitched into the offices and halls of Washington's Capitol. Then he was a Georgia Congressman, bitter foe of drinking ("I haven't had a drink in 46 years")*, chief crusader for sober officials." Fortnight ago, no longer a Congressman, just a platform-lecturer on a holiday, Dryman Upshaw arrived in Manhattan. He walked into the offices of the New York Graphic and asked to speak to its publisher and his good friend, Bernarr Macfadden. Publisher Macfadden was not there, so the caller said...
...Last fortnight he directed from his sick room the ratification by the Chamber of Deputies of a bill approving the bitterly contested debt settlement by which France agrees to pay the U. S. some $6,847,674,104.17 over 62 years. Presently the Senate approved the bill 300 to 292, and President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree enacting the debt settlement into law. Not until then did the stern old "Lion of Lorraine" feel free to dash upon paper the final resignation he has so long wanted to sign...
With producers scornfully silent, the loudest anti-Equity voice was Cinemactor Tully Marshall's. Fortnight ago, having accepted a non-Equity Warner Brothers contract, having flayed Equity in an inter- view, he and his employers were sued by Equity for $1,000,000 damages and an injunction to prevent his acting without Equity sanction (TIME, July 29). Last week he declared: "There are some who call me 'traitor. Well, if I'm a traitor, so was George Washington, who fought against taxation without representation. I will fight to the end against being forbidden to earn my living under a rule...
Most modernly civilized part of Africa is the area of British dominion. South Africa. Native whites call themselves Afrikanders. Their language is Afrikaans, a modification of Dutch. They have a South African Association for the Advancement of Science. That Association last week began a fortnight's entertain-ment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Capetown, Johannesburg, Pretoria. If the British Association met in the Dominion of Canada, Canadian and U. S. newspapers would tersely refer to it as the B.A.A.S.. or "British Ass." South African papers last week avoided abbreviation, for a great part...