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...with what they hope will develop into a pan-Arab front, the British used as their mouthpiece the reliable Emir of Trans-Jordan, who likes the new Turkey as much as he disliked the old Ottoman Empire. From his winter camp at Eshuneh, Abdullah sat down to the international chessboard and proclaimed to the world...
...Government can do this for the international bankers, why can't it do it for us all?" On the ballot under various titles (Union Party, Union Progressive, Third Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent one day in Utah, the next in Idaho, the next in Washington, the next in Wyo ming, the next in Nebraska, the next in Iowa, the next in Michigan, the next in Ohio. Greatest third-party vote in recent years was that for the late great Robert Marion La Follette...
...although, of course, the emphasis is placed upon the ill-starred Lady Jane Grey and Lord Warwick rather than upon other equally important figures of the time. The director's treatment is thoroughly sympathetic and, although the finale is a foregone conclusion, the movement of Lady Jane upon the chessboard of English politics is one which greatly concerns the spectator...
...over the Apennines. Setting the trimotored ship down at last near Dovia di Predappio, his birthplace in the Romagna, Il Duce tossed his flying helmet to a mechanic, drove off to concentrate at his country home on what moves he will make this week on Europe's chessboard when he opens the Stresa Conference...
...House took him at his word and in boisterous session passed (295-10-125) the bill, 231 Democrats deserting the Administration. All of which made no difference to the President since the bill could not. he was confident, be passed over his veto, must therefore die on the chessboard when Congress adjourned...