Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Affluent indeed would be a community where out of 20,000 Jews not one was poor. When last fortnight the municipal council of the little Polish town of Bydgoszcz claimed such prosperity, rejected a $100,000 legacy left to the town's poor jews because there were no poor Jews, the potent, ubiquitous Jewish telegraphic agency sent a correspondent, investigated...
...final ounce of boldness probably came, last fortnight, when the Dictator closed and bade farewell to the last democratically elected parliament of Italy. When the new Chamber meets, next Spring, it will consist entirely of Deputies hand picked by the Fascist Grand Council. There will be no Opposition. In the words of Il Capo to the departing deputies...
False, almost jubilant reports last fortnight had it that King Amanullah of Afghanistan and Queen Thuraya had been driven out of Kabul, their capital, by insurgents who objected to the King's dictum that all male Afghans wear pants...
...have contended that it was their troops who were attacked by Bolivians; and the Paraguay chargé d' affaires at La Paz, Bolivia, immediately suggested neutral investigation of whatever had occurred in Gran Chaco. The reply of the Bolivian government was to break off relations with Paraguay last fortnight, and to send more Bolivian soldiers last week into Gran Chaco, where at least 200 humans met death in circumstances impossible to ascertain...
...Walter Chrysler denied that he still had an interest in Pug Knute Hansen, recently battered by one K. 0. Christner. He wished to Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. luck with Pug Rene de Vos, in whom Biddle Jr. purchased an interest ]ast fortnight...