Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Hoover campaign entered Ohio last fortnight to take away from Candidate Willis some of the nucleus of delegates from which he had hoped to sprout a tail-end nomination like President Harding's, Candidate Willis blustered: "Personally, I have no fear of the results." He knew he was being laughed at in urbane Cincinnati, but he felt sure that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager...
Geologer Willis chanced to be away from California, lecturing in Ohio, when, last fortnight, Geologer Hill's retort professional was given "to the world" by the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly). Whether or not the world heard, the Graphic made sure that Geologer Willis would hear. Of him it said, with good-natured Californian venom: "God must have tipped him off ... the incondite ravings of a mischief maker. ... It is generally believed that Dr. Willis' service to the fire insurance underwriters was substantially rewarded...
...sooner had one Cabinet member gone north (see above), than another went south-Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, to Key West, Fla., for a fortnight, to mend his health...
Between these extremes, the voice of Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, who was President Coolidge's spokesman at the Geneva conference, gives what is probably the most honest and accurate expression of the mixed motives behind the present "Big Navy" talk. Testifying last fortnight before the House Committee, he said: "I am frank to say I hope that disarmament progress will make it possible to cut off part of the building program in 1931. . . . If in 1931 we go into that conference* with an authorized program of the strength we are entitled to, I hope we will find...
Straightway Sir John Simon, chairman of the Commission, famed Liberal barrister, sat briskly down at his desk, last week, and drew up an offer designed to conciliate 318,940,000 Indians, some thousands of whom rioted in Madras, Calcutta & Bombay last fortnight, in protest against the Commission and notably against the fact that no Indian sits upon...