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Little chessmen, small enough to be packed into a thimble; big chessmen, large enough to serve as bookends; crude chessmen, roughly hewn out of wood; and sparkling chessmen, delicately fashioned in precious metals--all will be included in the exhibit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kings, Queens, Bishops Rule Semitic Museum as Show of Chessmen Open | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...Although uncared for for many hundreds of years the walls of the tremendons citadel which defended the town are still over 40 feet high. Whole appartments of chambers are hewn in the living rock of the precipitous cliff and engraved with the auuals of the dynasty of kings in the Vannic language which is only partly understood, and whose exact linguistic connections are a matter of hot dispute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blake Describes Visit to Ancient City of Van in Asia Minor, Home of Former Rivals of Assyria | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

...lasted two hours. Obviously the President, tanned a deep brown from his outing, had an opinion about the House's activities. The Senate always dawdles, but the House, under the rule of strong Speakers, has a tradition of dispatch. As the tanned man looked up into the rough-hewn face of the successor of Henry Clay of Kentucky, James K. Polk of Tennessee, Howell Cobb of Georgia, Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, James G. Elaine of Maine, Thomas B. Reed of Maine, Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, Champ Clark of Missouri and Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, he must have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Hundred Days | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...such, he might be expected to favor low leaf prices. But this far-seeing Kentuckian, who once was a grocery salesman, seized the opportunity to publicize his interest in a square deal for Kentucky tobacco farmers regardless of the consequences to him or his company. From behind a rough-hewn speaker's table in the warehouse he declared: "The leaders of the AAA are honest, earnest men and not politicians....I would urge your continued co-operation with these men...." Espousing New Deal economics, the man who threw a scare into big tobaccomen two years ago with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Burgoo & Boom | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...years later Bardstown became the seat of a Catholic diocese which included Kentucky and Tennessee. Father Flaget, as Bishop, consecrated there the first Catholic Cathedral west of the Alleghenies. Corinthian columns were hewn from nearby forests and the interior was done in rich walnut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bardstown Believers | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

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