Word: two-week-old
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...himself was devoting only part of his time to the state of his mine workers. He absented himself from negotiations with the operators at White Sulphur Springs and Bluefield, W.Va., and traveled to Springfield, Ill. to visit his 91-year-old mother who was seriously Ill. But the two-week-old coal strike he had imposed upon the nation-and on his 480,000 coal miners-was clearly not accomplishing its purpose...
Britain's Labor government, locked in dubious battle with the obscure forces of a dollar-exchange crisis, had to turn this week to a more tangible danger. On the decision of his cabinet, King George VI proclaimed a state of emergency to meet a two-week-old strike on the London docks. Not since the General Strike of 1926 had a British government taken such drastic action in a labor dispute...
...Thiem-Harris exposé made no headlines in newspapers in other states for two weeks. The main reason was that most of the papers did not know about it; no news service had carried the story. Explained Executive Editor Alan Gould of the Associated Press: "In the beginning, we didn't think it was worth the wire space." Last week, after the A.P. got some calls from clients, it decided the scandal was news, after all, and put out the two-week-old story. This week Reporter Thiem turned up four names missed the first time, boosting the ante...
Dean Bender rescinded on Saturday his two-week-old order which would have required all student investigations of the administrative department of the University to clear through his office beforehand...
Hollywood's John Payne and Gloria DeHaven called off their second trial separation in 3 ½ years, "because we love each other and . . . .our two children." Songstress Ginny Simms-because "we still love each other"-considered dropping her two-week-old divorce suit (their first in nearly three years) against her architect-husband Hyatt Dehn...