Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Writing in Collier's a fortnight ago about the meeting last winter at French Lick, Ind., where the Scripps-Howard editors voted unanimously to support Hoover, Chairman Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard board of directors said: "The average age of the 26 men was just a trifle over 30 years...
Whatever crystallizes in Wisconsin next fortnight will be memorable. Walter Jodok Kohler, welfare-working plumbing man, will probably be elected Governor. Young Bob will almost certainly be re-elected Senator. There will be fights all down the line for other offices, the bitterness of which is daily being transmitted to the Presidential campaign in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Nebraska, where LaFollettism's determined foster-father, Senator George William Norris, was last week preparing an "important announcement" for his coming national radio hookup. Afterwards...
...mighty voice have lately been seen and heard by great and demonstrative masses of the electorate. He it was who put a firm quietus upon the "farm revolt" at the Kansas City convention. He it is who is reckoned as Nominee Hoover's most formidable stump spokesman. A fortnight ago he appeared in Minneapolis on the heels of Nominee Smith. Some 14,000 loudly cheering persons jammed into an auditorium to hear him pound at the Brown Derby's position on the Lakes-to-Sea waterway and the farm problem. He also defended the Hoover reputation from the low-wheat...
...fortnight much can be done; there was much to do. There was the question of remarriage of divorced persons; the place & work of women in the Church; a $4,000,000 budget; there was an impending controversy over a joint commission's recommendation that healing by faith be commended.; the election of a President of the House of Deputies* but principally there was the Prayer Book. More than 30,000 churchmen had signed a memorial protesting against the proposed exclusion of the 39 articles of religion, heritage of the English Church. The 39 articles, said the protestants, give...
Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. (Vitaphone sound-pictures) a fortnight ago bought control of Stanley Co. of America's 255 cinema theatres. Last week Warner Brothers finished buying control of First National Pictures' 3,000 first run houses everywhere in the country. The deals make a $100,000,000 merger...