Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador (Col.) Noble Brandon Judah, home from Cuba's heat, called last fortnight on Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot ("Per Schedule") Summerall, Chief of Staff, and arranged to join his old regiment, the 332nd Field Artillery,* in camp at Sparta...
Those who conduct Boy Scout affairs in the City of Cleveland passed a resolution last fortnight, saying: "Be it resolved, that whereas recent advertisements have been creeping closer and closer toward the inducement of girls to adopt the smoking of cigarettes, and whereas this purpose is being more and more plainly announced, it is felt to be the duty of this council to declare that the now-appearing billboard advertisement which portrays a young lady reading a letter to the effect that girls who seek pleasure in smoking are flocking to that given brand of cigarette, is an advertisement which...
...were suppressing, it was declared, the fact that Italian bankruptcies have risen from 500 per month in 1923 to over 900 per month. Substantial Italian banks with capitalizations of between one and 600 million lira were stated to be going bankrupt at the rate of one such institution every fortnight. Finally bills to a total value of three and a half million lira were declared to have been dishonored during the past twelvemonth in the three provinces of Rome, Milan and Turin...
This and more is the masthead of the Overland Mail, daily tabloid, born last fortnight on the Gold Coast Limited of the Union Pacific Railroad, somewhere between Chicago and the Pacific Ocean. The idea: to entertain patrons of the train, to tell them yarns about the scenery and the towns through which they pass...
Married. Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, unsuccessful publisher who last fortnight announced plans to pay 3,000 stockholders for losses incurred through his tabloid news ventures (TIME, July 9) ; and Mrs. Mary Weir Logan ; in Reno, one half hour after Mrs. Vanderbilt had obtained a divorce from Waldo Hancock Logan, Chicago broker...