Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortnight ago. Secretary Kellogg suppressed certain intelligence from China for fear of "unduly alarming" the people. Last week, it appeared that the intelligence in question related to the mobbing and manhandling of a U. S. man, one Butterick, at Hankow. Chinese flung at him pots of dung...
...third minority refused to ratify the-Lausanne Treaty between the U. S. and Turkey. The vote was 50 (all Republicans) to 34 (all Democrats) ? six less than the necessary two-thirds majority. In executive session behind closed doors, debate had fumed intermittently for more than a fortnight. Senator Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Administration backed the treaty; Senator King, sharp-tongued Mormon from Utah, and his band of Democrats fought it on the grounds that it fails to carry out Woodrow Wilson's plan for Armenian independence, that it does not guarantee protection to Christians...
Charles Gates Dawes: "Last week it became known that fortnight ago, when I received my $15,775 check for my Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20), I at once indorsed it to the order of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, which is about to be established at Johns Hopkins University. The check was forwarded to Owen D. Young, Chairman of the School's Trustees, by my brother Rufus, as part of Chicago's $100,000 allotment in the $1,000,000 fund being raised. Mr. Young, besides writing me a nice letter, wrote a more...
...enthusiasm for black shirts, castor oil and kindred masculinities of Fascism, they shall no longer be taught important subjects like history, literature and philosophy by women, but by men only, "in- spired and animated by strong, virile sentiment." So announced Professor Pietro Fedele, Italian Minister of Education, who last fortnight weeded out many a college professor and high school teacher possessed of un-Fascist sentiments. Elucidation: "Observation has demonstrated that women lack enthusiasm for philosophy, which they always seek to tincture with religion. They cannot write, and history they subject to sympathies or antipathies." In future women will teach Rico...
...Last fortnight the Bureau of the Census published its analysis of the 1,219,019 U. S. deaths that occurred during 1925. For every 100,000 of the population the death rate remained the same, 1,180, as in 1924. But according to diseases, it varied thus...