Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva conference having failed, President Coolidge has been advocating such additions to the U.S. cruiser line as would have been made had no conference ever been held. Britain, on the other hand, ast fortnight announced that she would build only one of three cruisers planned for next year (TIME, Nov. 28). Last week, U. S. wardogs growled suspiciously at this announcement...
Blackmer's Bonds. For refusing to return to the U. S. from France to testify in the Fall-Sinclair trial, Harry M. Blackmer, one of the main Sinclair vice presidents, was pronounced in contempt of court by Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, Mr. Sinclair's latest judge. Last fortnight a U. S. Marshall called at a Washington bank and attached for the U. S. $100,000 in Liberty Bonds deposited there in Mr. Blackmer's name. Mr. Blackmer's attorney promised to fight the U. S. for return of this price of silence by testing the constitutionality...
...Last fortnight, Representative Kight and three others handed Governor Johnston their petition. The names of the 65 other malcontents were withheld until Dec. 6, the day set for the proposed meeting of the Legislature. It was said that they feared "embarrassment...
Explanation lies in the fact that Italians were becoming anxious, last fortnight, over the signing of an accord between France and Jugoslavia in mid-November. If so great a Power as France was throwing her prestige upon the side of Italy's potential enemy, Jugoslavia, then it behooved Signor Mussolini to trumpet that Italy is unafraid and not unbefriended...
Died. Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, 60, onetime (1912-22) Apostolic Delegate from Rome to the U. S.; in Rome; after an operation a fortnight ago. He it was who as liason official arranged for an exchange of letters between Piux X (who sought to end the World War) and the late President Woodrow Wilson...