Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increases to legislative employes; $1,000,000 for legislative expenses, includ- ing $360,000 for publication of the Congressional Record, $200,000 for compilation and publication of tariff information, $226,000 for "mileage." The Senate's vote to adjourn, after its refusal to do so last fortnight, came suddenly, unexpectedly. The band of two dozen "Young Turks" (junior Republicans) was beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over...
...Last fortnight the Senate, wondering what had become of the $1,719,654 additional Prohibition enforcement appropriation allowed the Treasury Department earlier in the year (TIME, March 11), asked Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for a report. Last week he made his accounting...
...musicians their reputations are uniquely and indissolubly bound into one. They are the only famed lutanists in the world. Spanish Composers Manuel de Falla, Isaac Albeniz and Joaquin Nin have written music for them. Paris, London, Brussels have applauded their playing. Fortnight ago they made their U. S. debut in Manhattan. Last week seven other cities heard them?Boston, Princeton, N. J., Greencastle, Ind., St. Louis, Lake Forest, Ill., Chicago, Providence. The verdict everywhere was the same: that here are musicians possessed of immaculate technique and a fine, poetic sense of unity. Lutes if played by lesser artists drop into...
...cello. They played in the Budapest Royal Opera until the outbreak of the 1919 Revolution when they retired to a distant Hungarian village, devoted themselves for two years to the cult of chamber music. Now the Lener is one of the world's first string organizations. In Manhattan last fortnight its tender, lush playing of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven won noisy approval from the audience, superlatives from critics; made recent performances by the London String Quartet seem over-fastidious, bloodless by comparison. The Roth Quartet, however, also from Budapest, remains for most critics unrivaled for its flawless finesse...
...hockey team starts practice informally today, when 47 ice prospects report to Manager L. L. Wadsworth Jr., '30 for the touch football workout which is scheduled as part of the daily program for the next fortnight. Another score of men are expected by Tuesday, when intensive practice starts for all but football...