Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Editor & Publisher, passionate professional champion of the daily press, Argus-eyed foe of publicity-seekers, last fortnight attacked Educator Nicholas Murray Butler for allowing Columbia University to conceal somewhere about its curriculum "a course in press agentry." Editor & Publisher viewed with alarm the growing profession of ''public relations counsel." It warned, editorially: "This is the business that Ivy L. Lee, Edward L. Bernays. William B. Shearer...
Nonetheless cautious anonymity revealed that the operators took their account books to the conferences. Government accountants studied them during the fortnight, calling in the operators occasionally. They were impatient to get back to their own offices in different parts of the country. But exigency kept them irefully at Washington. The accountants discovered that some of the operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government...
...Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more experienced professional diplomat had received the Cuban post was an indication that relations between the U. S. and Cuba were not as strained as they had last fortnight appeared...
...TIME, July 23, 1928), was a rider on the Army appropriation act of 1901. It defined the terms under which Cuba might have its liberty, subject to intervention by the U. S. if and when the terms were violated. It was the possibility of Platt Amendment intervention which last fortnight was bothering "El Gallo." Doubtless Mr. Guggenheim, too, perused the Platti-tudes with close attention. In the end, however, the Senate decided that Cuban affairs, though vexed, were not critical. The situation called for the ability and popularity of a Harry Guggenheim, did not call for the long professional training...
Just before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...