Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When confronted, a fortnight ago, by members of the House Naval Affairs Committee, who demanded immediate appropriations for three 10,000-ton cruisers, President Coolidge gave in to the extent of "authorizing" ten eventual cruisers (TIME, Dec. 27). Last week, in peace talks at his two press conferences, the President emphasized that these ten cruisers are merely a program, that he would approve nothing for present construction, that he does not wish to stir competitive navy building by the world powers. Thus, militant Congressmen and Navy officers are back in their original position, ready to fight for immediate appropriations...
Crisis. When Foreign Minister Stresemann returned from Geneva a fortnight ago, bringing important concessions from the Allies†, the Marx Cabinet seemed secure amid generally favorable comment from the press and Reichstag deputies. Those who sought the Cabinet's overthrow had no quarrel with the foreign policy of able Dr. Stresemann. They left him out of the debate last week, and he will almost certainly succeed himself as Foreign Minister in whatever cabinet may be formed. Instead, the storm of opposition burst upon War Minister Otto Gessler, who has ten times filled that post...
...Sainte Marie smashed the ice, sailors aboard the freighters* enjoyed themselves. Some went hunting, walking across the surface ice. Others played pinochle in the warm quarters provided for them. All fed well, said their masters. They were drawing two weeks' extra pay for doing nothing. A fortnight of this and the channel jam was cleared. It would freeze again immediately and block some dozen boats still en route. But the Lake Carriers Association, which had ordered out the ice relief tugs and the Sainte Marie considered the job done. It costs thousands of dollars daily for such work...
Gould. No sooner had Senator Arthur R. Gould of Maine taken his oath of office, a fortnight ago, than did Senator Walsh of Montana demand an investigation of corruption charges against him. Last week, by a vote of 70 to 7, the Senate adopted Mr. Walsh's resolution. Three Republican Senators and two Democrats were appointed to look into the story of a $100,000 "bribe" which Mr. Gould is said to have paid to the Premier of New Brunswick in 1918 in connection with a railroad deal. Senator Gould is the only Republican in the 69th Congress whose seat...
Alvan Tufts Fuller, Packard Motor Car dealer in Boston, Governor of Massachusetts: "Last week I purchased in Paris, for 58,000 francs, a painting, The Statue, by Hubert Robert, the lively 18th Century French painter admired by Voltaire. Fortnight ago I secured at the Michelham sale in London (TIME, Dec. 6) Romney's much coveted portrait of Lady de la Pole, for $220,000. I often buy pictures. Less frequently, I write poetry...