Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More was at stake than "Zillie" (who retains his seat in Parliament despite his expulsion from the party). Within the last fortnight over 60 Labor M.P.s have flouted direct party orders in voting on two major issues. With the recent string of Labor defeats in local contests, and a general election looming up next year, Attlee was at last forced to discipline the rebels. As the most cantankerous of them, Zilliacus had to go first...
...Fortnight ago, aboard Capot in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Ted figured out just how to beat Eddie Arcaro (up on Olympia). He did, but Ben Jones's Ponder came up on the outside and beat them both (TIME...
...Fortnight ago he formally notified Queen Juliana that he would go on a hunger strike against the government's "wavering, incompetent and characterless" policy of appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...
When the strike started, Premier Maurice Duplessis' Quebec government called it illegal, told the men to go back to work and submit their demands to arbitration. At first the church kept silent, but a fortnight ago the Quebec Bishops' Sacerdotal Commission on Social Studies called on all Catholics, in the name of charity, to aid the strikers through Sunday church collections. Before the commission's report was published, three Duplessis ministers went to Ottawa and appealed to the Canadian Papal Delegate, Ildebrando Antoni-utti, to intervene. The answer they got was indicated at week...
...American Council's spring convention in Denver last fortnight, the 30 delegates passed resolutions opposing, among other things, "Brotherhood Week" and federal aid to education. The brotherhood of man, McIntire has said, is an unchristian idea. "Jesus Christ repudiated the popular doctrine that is on the lips of thousands of preachers today-the universal Fatherhood of God. There is no such doctrine taught in the Bible. Neither does its corollary, the brotherhood of man, exist in the Bible...