Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced, had declared his willingness to run for the office when the term ends next autumn. New Jersey Republicans smiled with satisfaction at this exchange of Ambassadors and Senators, felt they were making a fine bargain. They spoke appreciatively of David Baird Jr., the man appointed last fortnight to be Senator ad interim (TIME, Dec. 2), who will step down for Mr. Morrow as his father before him once stepped down for Mr. Edge...
...neat a trick as daylight saving was announced last fortnight by smart Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha whose beetling brows and piercing eyes suggest the wisdom of a Mephisto...
Engaged. Nancy Susan Reynolds, 18, daughter of late Tobaccoman R. J. Reynolds; and Henry Walker Bagley, 24, of Atlanta and Manhattan; at Winston Salem, N. C. Fortnight ago her brother Zachary Smith Reynolds, 17, married Miss Anne L. Cannon, 19, at York...
Each will receive his hat at secret and at public consistories fortnight before Christmas. To Church diplomats the important fact was that of the five new Cardinals, only two were Italians. The traditional balance between Italian and non-Italian Cardinals in the Sacred College which for centuries has assured the election of an Italian Pope was sadly askew, standing last week: Italians, 29; non-Italians, 33. As there are still eight vacancies, another consistory will probably soon be held, more Cardinals appointed. But according to tradition at least four seats in the College of Cardinals must remain unfilled...
...protect mental health and treat the mentally ill humanely, intelligently. In the future they will teach specifically how to prevent mental and nervous troubles, how to treat and cure developed cases. TIME'S reference to what Yale's President James Rowland Angell said at the mental hygiene dinner last fortnight gave an erroneous impression. Yale was not the first school to have a staff psychiatrist. Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles started Yale's mental hygiene work. He is now consultant in mental hygiene in the Department of University Health. Harvard, Minnesota and Chicago likewise have full-time psychiatric staffs for their...