Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nightmare at this time last year to the millions who live in its lower basin, the Mississippi River is a nightmare to President Coolidge now. Last week, alarmed by reports that the Flood Control bill, which the Senate shoved through last fortnight, might cost the U. S. a billion or $1,500,000,000, the President sent for Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, his Flood Control spokesman. Mr. Madden was sick abed but up he got and to the White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President...
...these three, the last and least, Indiana's Robinson, has participated most obscurely in governing the U. S., until last fortnight. Then, thinking he saw a chance to drag the Democratic Party into the Oil Scandal, he stood up in the Senate and falsely imputed a relation with Oilman Sinclair to Governor Smith of New York. "Birds of a feather!" he jibed. Democrats soon stuffed Indiana's own jailbirds and Klan feathers down Senator Robinson's throat (TIME, April...
...larger radio interests were displeased with the amendments Congress put into the Federal radio law last fortnight, they were better pleased by the Senate's action last week in confirming all four of President Coolidge's appointments to the revivified Federal Radio Commission...
...attempt at Prohibition enforcement, in which raids were staged on eleven cabarets that considered themselves immune from such treatment. That may have inspired the bombing as well as the assassination of "Diamond Joe" Esposito, gangster, Deneen henchman of the 25th ward, flashy hero of Chicago's Little Italy. Fortnight ago, "Diamond Joe" stood on a corner, five doors from his home, when an automobile drove up to the curb. There was a rat-tat-tat and the automobile drove away, leaving 58 slugs in the body of "Diamond Joe." He had a fine funeral. His coffin cost...
...unique distinction; she was, last week, the only female member of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. To find a similar business woman in the U. S. one must search out pretty, audacious Miss Peggy Cleary of Manhattan (TIME, April 2), the spinster-stockholder who bid $375,000, last fortnight, in an effort to obtain a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In Amsterdam the buzz of tickers ceased to have meaning, last week, for Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Removed to a hospital, she lay at first unconscious, and later sphinxlike by advice of her attorneys. Her husband, forgotten by the press...