Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski left Warsaw a fortnight ago, ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain...
...fortnight ago the common stock of the Curtis Publishing Co. (Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal, Country Gentleman) "led the market." It sold above $200 a share. This was the first time that a publisher's stock has ever done so. It was deemed remarkable until one realized that the market over which Curtis Publishing gained its leadership, in which it was the highest priced for a day, was that of unlisted securities traded over brokers' counters. These are the precious shares whose owners esteem them too valuable for the dickerings of the stock...
...Fortnight ago, near Kansas City, Misaji Kawahara, Japanese truck-gardener hanged himself to tend his storm-killed horse in another world (TIME, July...
...Smith. Boston lawyer Smith, lauded and feted a fortnight ago by effusively grateful Hungarians (TIME, July 5) made the retort courteous and gallant last week by returning to the Hungarian Government a cheque for $100,000 which was tendered him as his well-earned salary for two years of unremittent labor. Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary declared himself unable to find words in which to praise fitly such generosity from a man known to be far from rich. Straightway the cheque was deposited as "The Jeremiah Smith Hungarian Scholarship Fund." Every year two Hungarian students will travel memorially...
Liberal Premier King kept his Cabinet going on the slenderest of majorities until his defeat by one ballot and resignation a fortnight ago. (TIME, July 5.) Last week Conservative leader Arthur Meighen stepped confidently into the Premiership. Within 72 hours he, too, suffered defeat. Lest this teetering and tottering continue indefinitely, Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy promptly dissolved the Canadian House of Commons...