Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last fortnight President Hoover persuaded Alexander H. Legge to leave the $100,000 presidency of International Harvester Co. and serve as chairman of the Federal Farm Board at $12,000. Before the "butter brigade" could have at Mr. Legge's "sacrifice" and career, trenchant Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, an arch-Democrat except where President Hoover is concerned, wrote in "The Great Game of Politics," his daily column, as follows...
...ascertainable facts might have seemed thin in any place but Central Europe. But that part of the world is as full of spies as of flies. Only last fortnight Prague's Národni Politika, commenting absently on the spy situation, observed with interest that Russian spies seemed to be unusually numerous this year...
Fifth Worst Accident's Cause. The cause of aviation's fifth worst heavier-than-air accident, the wreck of the Imperial Airways' City of Ottawa in the English Channel fortnight ago (TIME, July 1), was the splitting of two small connecting rod bolts. An inquiry board decided last week that the bolts were "fatigued," a metallurgical term which means that the crystals of the metal had been strained out of their most useful shape and arrangement, in this case probably by motor vibration. Planemakers took note of the necessity for tireless bolts...
...Harvard's commencement and reunion last fortnight. Banker John Pierpont Morgan stepped out of his line of march to handshake Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York. Last week Governor Roosevelt asked his Attorney-General to investigate at once and within two weeks report upon the new $665,000,000 Morgan merger of New York utility companies (TIME, June 24). Reason: It was "a matter of vital concern ... to every householder . . . who uses electric light or power in his home" if, through agreements with friendly companies, the Morgan merged companies would be in such a monopolistic position that...
When Sir Wilfred Grenfell left Wiscasset, Me., last fortnight aboard his motor yacht Maraval, bound for his annual summer missionary work in Labrador, he took as usual several college boys to do Labra-chores. This year two of them are Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Dartmouth) and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Princeton), grandsons of John Davison Rockefeller...