Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Secretary Wilbur, last fortnight, President Coolidge heard that Augustino Sandino, the Nicaraguan "rebel" leader, in whose suppression the U. S. Marines have been engaged for nearly two years, had at last become discouraged and had "disappeared;" that his forces were retreating from Nicaragua toward the Honduran border. Two days after this Wilbur report came news that a squadron of five Marine airplanes had thoroughly "strafed" a rebel camp, near where Nicaragua ends and Honduras begins. ¶ In President Coolidge's name, congratulations were cabled to President Charles Dunbar, Burgess King of Liberia, on the 81st anniversary of that...
...strange interlude of a fat Senator in a summer hotel was headlined last fortnight as follows: HEFLIN SCENTS PLOT AS BED CRASHES. Last week the Senator and the hotel management, in Asbury Park, N. J., explained. The Senator's story was that two men came to his bedroom door late one evening and said they had come to mend his bed. There were two beds in the room. The Senator asked which they would mend. How did they know in which bed he would sleep? To these astute questions the men could not reply. They could find nothing wrong...
Hero-worshipping men-children of Giggleswick School, Yorkshire, were addressed last fortnight by Lord Byng of Vimy, 65, the grizzled War hero who is about to become Police Commissioner at London's famed Scotland Yard. Even at Giggleswick little boys know that Scotland Yard has been rocked by scandalous exposures (TIME, July 16) and that the weighty War prestige of Lord Byng is counted on to steady matters down. Especially do naughty little Giggleswickers know about Miss Irene Savidge, who was made to show her pink petticoat in the course of a Scotland Yard Third Degree which caused...
Frederick H. Gillett, the white-goateed junior Senator from Massachusetts, made a speech a fortnight ago to a band of Republican women workers gathered in the Hotel Kimball at Springfield, Mass. He said: "It is at gatherings like these that we must sow the seeds which will win the election." He proceeded to comment on Nominee Smith's appeal for "a certain class or element of citizens...
...fortnight ago reports and opinions conflicted. Nominee Robinson warned his party that there was an "organized effort" to beat the ticket in the South. An anti-Smith caucus was called among Texas Democrats. A "scratch Smith" movement was reported among North Carolina Democrats. To combat this sort of thing, regular Democrats threatened to keep "bolter books" and expel from the party any Democrat who abandoned the nominees...