Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons" will represent the U. S., Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan. They expect to meet within a fortnight to grapple with the job of drafting a charter for Europe's new International Bank of (reparations) Settlements. Though not the largest bank in the world, the I. B. S. will have the world's broadest scope. It is the cornerstone of the Young Plan, which has now superseded the Dawes Plan. It will act as the clearing house through which Germany will pay reparations for 57 years on the instalment plan. It will progressively capitalize future payments in advance...
...proposal that the League should work for lower European tariffs made by British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald during his flying visit to the League last fortnight, was praised and seconded by the Scandinavian countries...
...Prince Louis laughed at the idea of a Monagasque revolution; not so Princess Charlotte. She rushed to Monte Carlo fortnight ago, listened long and patiently to the Monagasques' complaints. On to Marseilles went she to argue the justice of their claims with her father. At length after a long and exhausting family scene, he relented, wrote a favorable reply to his subjects' demands. With Prince Louis' letter in her handbag, adopted daughter Charlotte hurried back to Monaco...
From Columbia's muliebral Barnard College last fortnight issued the annual report of famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time...
...Another able golf senior is William Dewitt Mitchell, 55, Attorney-General of the U. S. Last fortnight, over his home Somerset course at St. Paul, Minn., Golfer Mitchell shot 77, 84, won the Minnesota senior championship...