Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Olvany on Woollen. To Mr. Olvany last week came also Evans Woollen, potent Indianapolis banker, last fortnight (TIME, May 16) advanced as Democratic Indiana's presidential choice. It was suggested that Mr. Woollen came to see Mr. Olvany concerning the Tammany attitude toward his boom. Said Mr. Olvany: "I found Mr. Woollen a fine and upstanding Democrat but we did not discuss politics...
...General Andrews' duties as U. S. Prohibition head had been added the job of U. S. literary censor. Last fortnight New York customs authorities had held up imported, unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights and the Decameron, acting under Section 305 of the Tariff Act, which forbids importation of indecent printed matter. Publishers protested, argued that these were standard classics, immune as such...
...chiefly responsible for the present overproduction. If the Seminole wells could be shut off for a few days or if each well would restrict itself to produce, oil men estimate, only 200 barrels a day for a time, then consumers would use up the present excess. After a fortnight, supply should satisfy demand very evenly. It is Emissary Ray H. Collins' job to persuade Seminole Pool men to suck oil in unison, moderately...
Reply to Coolidge. In Mexico City, President Plutarco Elias Calles called in newsgatherers who found his heavy, brown features alight. He pointed with honest satisfaction to the Spanish translation of a paragraph from President Calvin Coolidge's speech a fortnight ago before the United Press Convention in Manhattan. In their original English, the words of President Coolidge read...
...painful for a live and squirming lobster to be immersed suddenly in boiling water. So decided the members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, after careful consideration, in London a fortnight ago. They protested to restaurateurs against this barbaric treatment of the inarticulate lobster; sought to discover a more humane method of killing...