Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colleges) for $7,000, started to learn about selling and printing at R. R. Donnelley & Sons. By 1935 he had learned and saved enough to open his own advertising firm in Dallas. The first year was tough: he sold only $9,000 worth of advertising, had to pawn his Model T five times to keep in business...
...attention of the late great Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, who made him give up exhibition chess at the age of 13 so he could get an education. By the time he was 23 and resumed playing, Reshevsky proved that his early talent had been no flash in the pawn. At the 1935 International Masters Tournament at Margate, England, little Sam copped first prize-outwitting among others, onetime World's Champion José Capablanca...
...Three Illinois Republicans: Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, isolationist pawn of Chicago Publisher Robert R. McCormick; billiard-bald, Throttlebottomish Congressman Stephen A. Day, who in 1941 said a U.S. war would mean "National suicide . . . and economic slavery"; blonde, blue-eyed Congresswoman Jessie Sumner, who calls herself a "Miss-Representative," and coins many a corny crack ("I may be an old maid but I want to be the mother of my country...
...Workers who move to new jobs pawn clothes, jewelry, watches, radios and cameras to get railway fare. When they get their first checks they redeem the goods by mail. A Los Angeles shop sent a radio on to a workman in Honolulu last week. Into one shop walked a carpenter who had borrowed $80 last year to get to a construction job in Alaska. He repaid his loan and gave the proprietor $1,400 in cash for safekeeping...
...recent career of Mr. Meaney has demonstrated that he is a pawn in the hands of a man who has expressed his conception of the nature of justice in the now-famous phrase, 'I am the law.' . . . Can it be assumed that he will divest himself of the habits of a lifetime and administer his court with a justice unstained by politics...