Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police last week extracted from Thomas J. Callegy, Manhattan Negro Post Office porter who last fortnight "discovered" a harmless-hissing "bomb" addressed to New York's Governor Roosevelt, a confession that he (Callegy) had made and sent it himself. Reason: his $1,600-per-year postal job was monotonous, not lucrative. He thought if he did something "heroic" he would be promoted. Would-be-hero Callegy was hospitalized for mental observation...
Even the German delegation was declared to have tacitly endorsed this principle, last week, as a result of repeated personal conferences between Manhattan's sociable yet determined Owen D. Young and Berlin's somewhat brusque and offish Dr. Hjalmar Schacht-he who only last fortnight embroiled the committee by suggesting that its august proceedings amounted to "shady horse-trading...
...fortnight ago he was advancing with 150,000 Nationalist troops against a rebel army of 100,000 strongly entrenched. In the enemy camp it was believed that President Chiang could not count on the support of Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (see p. 30), and that the strong militarist clique in Canton had definitely sided against the Nationalist Government. How Canton was brought suddenly to heel last week by President Chiang will not soon be known with certainty; but quite possibly huge bribes turned the trick, as they often do in China...
...recent resignation of Marshal Feng from the post of Nationalist War Minister (TIME, April 8), strengthened the rebels' confidence that he would aid them against the Government; but as battle lines were drawn, last fortnight, Feng remained steadfast, and when definite confirmation of this reached Hankow, last week, the house of cards collapsed. Despatches indicated that Master Mind Chiang had kept Marshal Feng's allegiance by promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north...
...Last fortnight the French Academy of Sport gave Inventor de la Cierva its grand prize for 1928. Last fortnight, also, the French Flyer Massot flew an autogiro from Paris to Troyes, 86 miles, in one hour...