Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone's once-invincible "mob." They had wriggled through three murder trials to freedom. For the mowing down of seven members of the George ("Bugs") Moran gang on St. Valentine's Day (TIME, Feb. 25), Scalise had been indicted, had obtained temporary freedom the fortnight prior on $50,000 bail...
...fortnight ago the world received calmly the news that General Juan Vicente Gomez had been unanimously re-elected President of Venezuela. To every black-eyed Venezuelan boy it has been one of the fixed and immutable facts of life that ancient, crafty, blue-spectacled Gomez is and ever shall be President of Venezuela, as he has been for 20 years...
Seldom a handshaker, Col. Lindbergh is even less often a "joiner." For him it has been boasted that the only air clubs to which he belongs are the Caterpillar club (parachutests) and the Q. B. (Quiet Birdmen). Last fortnight he paid $1,000 to join Aviation Country Clubs, Inc., electing as his home club the one which is to be erected at Hicksville...
Crossing the continent last fortnight from California?to join Mrs. Hearst in Manhattan, as he does at least once each year (wedding anniversary)?Mr. Hearst felt a public message stirring within him. President Hoover had just gone to Manhattan and addressed the Associated Press on the subject of crime and law enforcement (TIME, April 29). In the presidential reasoning, Publisher Hearst thought he detected flaws. Himself the holder of many an A. P. franchise, he proposed to tear apart and answer what President Hoover had said to the assembled editors and publishers...
Having last fortnight (TIME, May 6) established a U. S. branch, Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie last week strengthened its international position by adding the Swiss chemical industry to the European chemical cartel. For, though I. G. Dyes is not the entire German chemical industry, it does occupy a dominant position in its field, and growth of the cartel is reflected in prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France...