Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capone's West Side mob was under suspicion. Tony Lombardo, Capone's good friend, wilted last summer under a spray of bullets at Madison and Dearborn Streets (TIME, Sept. 17). And a shipment of Canadian whiskey from Detroit's "Purple Gang" to Capone was hijacked last fortnight, presumably by Moran...
...Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France (who speaks no English) and the Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert (who learned his French at Rutgers College...
...movie projector to His Holiness was emblazoned with the Italian Coat of Arms and was the first vehicle so emblazoned to enter the Papal precincts since 1870. The estrangement between Pope and King which then began has now been so thoroughly patched up by the Treaty signed last fortnight that next June, according to announcements made last week, the Royal State Coach will clatter up to the Vatican, and King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay a call which the Supreme Pontiff will speedily return...
Very subdued and tearful was 21-year-old Signora Anna Donnarumma, in the village of Gragnano last fortnight, for she had just given birth to girl-twins...
...Advisory Council of the Reserve system (a group of private bankers & businessmen appointed by directors of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks) emphatically endorsed the Reserve Board's warning of last fortnight. The Reserve banks themselves began to tighten money by selling government securities and bankers' acceptances. Member banks beckoned for about $60,000,000 of outstanding call money...