Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile the Post Office order was regarded in shipping circles as a thrust at the Cunard Line, which last fortnight (TIME. Jan. 7) began cutting into U. S. Lines, Havana trade by putting the 20,000-ton Caronia on the New York-to-Cuba route. Angry, the U. S. Shipping Board loaned its crack trans-Atlantic steamer, speed, the President Roosevelt, to the (U. S.) Ward Line, thus promised the Caronia the best competition that U. S. boats could give it. This competition got under way last week when the Caronia and the President Roosevelt left New York. Cuba-bound...
Finally Mr. Gilbert consented to observe that he would confer "quite unofficially" with President Coolidge and President-Elect Hoover in Washington, later rejoining Mrs. Gilbert at her home in Louisville, Ky., and returning with her to Europe in about a fortnight. To hotly pressed queries about Reparations, the Agent General answered repeatedly: "You'll find that in my report...
...Highness the Aga Khan who presided as Chairman of the All Indian Mohammedan Conference (TIME, Jan. 7). On the agenda was a momentous question. Should the assembled Mohammedans endorse the demand that India be given ''Dominion Status" within a year, which was voiced last fortnight in Calcutta by the Indian National Congress, a gathering not of Mohammedans but of Hindus. When the matter had been thoroughly thrashed out and winnowed, last week, the Aga Khan deftly guided the Mohammedan Conference into adopting a resolution which absolutely ignored the Hindu demand upon Great Britain for ''Dominion Status...
...Italy the royal family decreed a fortnight period of mourning to honor Nicholas Nicholaievitch, who was brother-in-law of Queen Elena...
...Pasadena.* This year, after the Army and N. Y. U. had been smashed by Stanford and Oregon Aggies, Georgia Tech was asked to come out West. It seemed at first that a lion was asking a rabbit to come inside his den; when a picked Eastern team last fortnight beat a picked Western team, people thought that perhaps the analogy was that of a bear entertaining a wasp and the odds on the game approached even money...