Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of the Grand Rapids Herald, 44-year-old Republican, Mason, Shriner, Elk, Woodman, was appointed Senator from Michigan last week to succeed Woodbridge N. Ferris, 75-year-old Democrat who died of pneumonia last fortnight. Mr. Vandenberg made the fifth journalist in the Upper House. Fellow Republican publishers to whom he can look from behind his horn-rimmed glasses for encouragement in his maiden speech are Cutting of New Mexico, Capper of Kansas, La Follette of Wisconsin. Senator-publisher Carter Glass of Virginia sits across the aisle among the Democrats...
...helping hand of hypnotism has long been recognized in medicine. Last fortnight it was lauded on opposite sides of the globe. Professor William Brown at Oxford University told in the second of the Terry lectures at Yale about curing alcoholics, drug addicts, shell shocked soldiers by hypnosis.* In Odessa, Russia, Dr. J. Kalachnik reported the successful use of hypnosis in childbirth...
Henry Hentz & Co. reported that this transaction was but typical of other German orders similarly placed, executed and confirmed by telephone in recent weeks. Observers marveled as much at the German enterprise as at the rapid communication. During last fortnight's furor on the New York Stock Exchange, a busy floor man was asked by his office for a quotation on General Electric. "What the-!" he roared. "I can't be bothered for quotations at a time like this!" "But Berlin wants to know. They're holding the wire." Abashed, the floorman dove into the nearest drift...
...give the rest of the U. S. an unbiased view of New England, "to stem the flow of low meanings, heard both within and without," the New England Council was formed in 1925 at a meeting of businessmen and governors of the six New England states. Last fortnight, this "stimulating and coordinating agency" assembled in Providence, R.I. Its president, John Silsbee Lawrence, 49, Boston dry goods merchant, bank director, member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, pointed with pride to the accomplishments and plans...
...Fixit has been featured in Scripps-Howard advertising during the last fortnight...