Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time he had seen an ocean, or a razor-shell clam or an undertow or a beach littered with bottles, fruit crates, oil dregs, clinkers. The Governor of South Dakota is a witty man, as all can testify who heard his speech at the Jackson Dinner in Washington last fortnight. Confronted with an ocean, he said: "It looked pretty...
...report spread through Pennsylvania last week that Robert Elliott, official executioner for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, had collapsed and resigned his posts after doing his lethal duty by Murderers Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray at Sing Sing Prison last fortnight. The report was false. Executioner Elliott had neither collapsed nor resigned. Nor did he collapse late last week when he pulled the switch that sent Leon Scovern, 20, to death for the murder of a sweetheart's brother...
...back of their mine strike broken, the I. W. W.'s in Colorado resented it last fortnight when Louis N. Scherf, "hero" of the Columbine Mine "massacre" (TIME, Dec. 5), was posted in Walsenburg, Colo., with his squad of sharpshooting State Police, to watch over the town while the State Industrial Commission parleyed there on the strike. The State Police were in town at the request of Mayor John J. Pritchard, whom the Walsenburg city council declared a virtual dictator during the disturbances. Mayor Pritchard cried: "Bolshevism shall not prosper in Walsenburg as long as I am mayor...
...chairmanships of committees, where they would have to maintain decorum, not disturb it. For example, Mr. Hughes secured the election of fiery Dr. Don José Gustavo Guerrero, Foreign Minister of Salvador, as chairman of the important Public International Law Committee. Dr. Guerrero came to the Conference, a fortnight ago, spouting indiscreet criticisms of the U. S. but completely subsided last week...
...august commission to India. Patriotic, they will slave for more than a year, voluntarily, at a thankless task. Six of the wise men are Viscount Burnham, until recently owner of the London Daily Telegraph; Baron Strathcona, Unionist peer; Lieut. Col. George Richard Lane-Fox, up to the last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary for War in the MacDonald Labor Cabinet. The seventh, their Chairman, the Great Liberal, Sir John Simon, several times a cabinet minister, will...