Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover, has for 30 years been major domo of the White House. He knows all Washington by sight, and what is more, in what order it can be seated around a dinner table without offending anyone. He is of infinite utility around the White House. Last fortnight he telephoned a store in haste to order necessaries...
...South. Col. Horace Mann, undercover Hooverizer in the South, was allowed to withdraw last fortnight from further political operations when he failed to win the support of the Republican National Committee for his "lily white" movement (TIME, Feb. 18). He went out the same mystery man he had come in. The appointments of Messrs. Jahncke and Hurley to the sub-Cabinet were designed to relieve the South's disappointment at not being represented in the Cabinet. Mr. Jahncke, in particular, was a "lily white" appointment, as he had striven manfully against the rule of Walter Cohen, dictator of Louisiana...
Last week's figures on the Royal Exchange were all the more significant because they represented a sudden fall of 20 points within a fortnight in the quotations on Conservatives. These 20 points-20 prospective seats in the House of Commons-were subtracted by the brokers on 'Change from a previous Conservative quotation of 292 and were added to the then prevailing Liberal figure of 62. Thus the shrewd merchants of London's "City" showed what they fear will be the effect of Mr. Lloyd George's recent phenomenally daring Liberal keynote speech (TIME, March...
...pictures appeared as the result of her discovery by a sharp-eyed prison surgeon in Brixton Jail, where the callipygian captain was temporarily detained a fortnight ago on a charge of bankruptcy. One of the most fetching of these pictures (see below), shows her wearing the collar of an officer in the Legion of Honor, while across the scarlet bosom of her mess jacket dangle the British D.S.O.; the Star of Mons, the Cross of a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre with palm...
...libel suits. In 1915 Art Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while hunting in France...