Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arch Coleman is a quiet Quaker. Fifty-two and fair, he walks, hunts, fishes for diversion. He owned the City Coal Co. at Minneapolis until he was appointed postmaster there seven years ago. Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...
Banker Morgan, who last fortnight was given a Princeton honorary LL.D., arrived at Cambridge apparently alone. In the academic procession he marched at the side of Bishop Charles Lewis Slattery who was graduated from Harvard two years after him (1891). He lunched with President Abbott Lawrence Lowell at a private table in the "yard." Following the precedent established when he recently arrived on the Mauretania (TIME, June 17) he made no objections to newsphotographers. One camera caught him munching a bun. Banker Morgan, eschewing academic robes or class reunion costume, wore a black cutaway, grey trousers, panama hat. He left...
...fortnight ago, for doing all these things for aviation he received the first "Spirit of St. Louis Aeronautical Medal," just established by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers...
When, last fortnight, J. P. Morgan & Co. announced a merger of three potent New York State power companies (TIME, June 24), only New York Staters were deeply interested. When, last week, final approval of the long-pending merger of Continental Oil and Marland Oil companies was interpreted as first step in a national Morgan oil corporation, public interest was wider but still quiescent. But also announced last week was a Morgan-managed merger of Fleischmann Co., Royal Baking Powder Co., and E. W. Gillett, Ltd.* At that the country sat up and took sharp notice...
...Last fortnight Attorney Will H. Latta, of Indianapolis, was killed when a train struck his automobile. Last week Attorney Latta's will left public bequests of more than $160,000,000. Yet no rich man was Attorney Latta. His total estate came only to some...