Word: fortnights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conventioneers. Responsibility for the physical accommodation and manipulation of the 1089 delegates at the Convention Hall itself was entrusted to a Major R. A. Gunn of Chicago, who reached Kansas City last fortnight. A "troubleshooter" is what Major Gunn called himself, † "I will provide everything except whiskey," he said. This remark cleared Major Gunn of any connection with a $25,000 shipment of alcoholic goods, marked "phosphate" (fertilizer) and consigned vaguely to Kansas City, which was seized last week in Alabama en route from Florida...
...passed in the U. S. prohibiting Sunday golf, great is the outcry. Laws have been passed in Porto Rico prohibiting cockfighting on Sundays and on every other day. But there is no outcry, except among the politicos. The politicos lately passed a bill repealing their harshest prohibition. Last fortnight Governor Horace Mann Towner vetoed the act and repeated that cockfighting is "a barbarous and cruel sport." But people said the law would not matter one way or the other. The jibaro pays no attention, saving his breath for the secret pit, the dashing fury of his little bird...
...Last fortnight the U. S. farmer was pronounced embattled by Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska. Other politicians supporting Candidate Lowden for the Presidency chimed in. They said the U. S. farmer was angry because President Coolidge had vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, which contained a sales tax ("equalization fee") to be levied on consumers to guarantee the U. S. farmer higher prices. Governor McMullen called for a "crusade" of 100,000 farmers, to demonstrate at the G. O. P. Convention in Kansas City. Governor McMullen went to Chicago and there declared that the number of farmers who would actually...
...Cabinet provisionally assembled, last fortnight, under General John Metaxas (Royalist), was hastily supplanted, last week, by one more Coalition Government under veteran Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis...
...changes were made in the Harvard lineups today, but Coach Brown has not yet said definitely that the crews will remain as they are today. With the Yale race one day more than a fortnight away, the Crimson crew seems well prepared. Glimpses of the rival crews in action give the impression that the race on June 22 will be the closest in years...