Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have succeeded in reducing the party deficit from $1,550,000 to $800,000, with every indication of a further reduction to under $500.000 within the next fortnight. . . . The party's interest can be advanced best by opening a permanent and adequate headquarters in Washington and the conducting of active organization work 365 days in the year. ... I have appointed Mr. Jouett Shouse, of Kansas City, to be chairman of the executive committee and he will immediately assume charge of the Washington office...
...fortnight ago all negotiations were abruptly broken off and the committee prepared to disband (TIME, April 29), after a demand upon Germany for 28 billion dollars over 58 years was met by Dr. Schacht with an absolute refusal to pay more than 15 billions over 37 years. The Allies were particularly incensed by the fact that Germany's "Iron Man" made a portion of his offer conditional upon the return to the Fatherland of certain territory and colonies which she gave up by ratifying the Treaty of Versailles. Blamed by all the Allied delegates for dynamiting the committee, stubborn...
This point was the very core of the U. S. proposals presented in Geneva a fortnight ago by Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson, personal friend and confidential representative of Mr. Hoover. At the earliest opportunity last week Comrade Litvinov rose and moved a resolution closely paraphrasing Mr. Gibson's speech. The delegates of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission were asked by the cheerful Russian to declare that they are engaged in promoting "drastic reduction of armaments...
Whatever concessions are made by the U. S. in Geneva are to be interpreted in no other sense than as efforts to advance toward the cardinal ideal. This applies in particular to Mr. Gibson's abandonment a fortnight ago of the traditional U. S. demand that "reduction of armaments" must include curtailment of the numbers of "trained reserves." This concession and a supplementary announcement by Mr. Gibson last week that the U. S. will also stomach the existence of unlimited stores of military supplies are not to be misinterpreted...
Officers of the Household Cavalry flushed behind their monocles a fortnight ago, when it was learned that a horse bearing one of the immobile mounted sentries of Whitehall had fallen asleep at its post and collapsed under its rigid, ornately accoutred rider (TIME...