Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making a campaign speech, was re-elected to the seat for a term expiring in 1933. He died in 1928. Appointed was Cyrus Locher. Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally chose Willis...
...Last fortnight Attorney General Mitchell detailed over the radio the Administration's plan for permanent prison betterment. It called for $6.500,000 to build five new Federal prisons: a 1,200-inmate penitentiary in the northeastern states, an industrial reformatory in the West for 1.200, three Federal jails to hold 500 short-term convicts each. The plan also projects reorganization of the parole system, development of prison industries, provision for education of prisoners...
...Democrats were not inclined to criticize Mr. Raskob because of the stock market, Republicans were. Last fortnight in the Senate, Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas attributed in part the recent market crash to a flow of unduly optimistic statements from Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Andrew William Mellon. Defending the Republicans, Senator Robinson of Indiana rose to blame Mr. Raskob for the frenzy of speculation. He called Mr. Raskob a "plunger," cited Mr. Raskob's published faith in stocks, his plans for a workers' investment trust, his null General Motors statement (TIME, Feb.11) as public inspirations to gambling, responsible...
...shrewd mob psychologist is Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could come to a political boil in New Zealand, Prime Minister Ward made his move. He arranged that any "conchy" (conscientious objector) not desiring to drill with the military, should drill with the Salvation Army, receive "training in social service," learn to sing hosannahs, jingle tambourines, sell The War Cry (Salvation weekly...
...London opening last fortnight the play had fair success. Actress Foster is not the only person Critic Hannen Swaffer has belittled. He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller." Playwright Shaw did not smack Critic Swaffer's face. Instead, at the annual luncheon of the Critics' Circle last month in London, when Toastmaster St. John Ervine divided dramatic critics into three kinds?"critics, reporters and Hannen Swaffer"?Shaw said all dramatic critics were very bad, compared Swaffer to the late great Playwright-Critic William Archer,* said that Archer was worse...