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...most exciting of the team matches was against the Boylston Chess Club with the first place position in question. In the last game with the score tied, Fernsler, one pawn behind, succeeded in breaking through Lyman undefeated captain of the Boylston team. Fernsler himself was undefeated in collegiate competition and along with White was the most consistent winner...
...Catholic cries out against any civic philosophy which would degrade man to the position of a soulless pawn in a sordid game of power and prestige, or would seek to banish him from membership in the human family; ... he opposes any social philosophy which would regard man as a mere chattel in commercial competition for profit, or would set him at the throat of his fellows in a blind, brutish class struggle for existence...
...week's end more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area were closed, some 2,500 of the 8,000 Bridges Warehousemen were out of work and the hot car, having traveled over 220 miles, had become a major pawn in San Francisco's ever smoldering labor...
...issue as an excuse to get off the road. The A. F. A. also charged that Mr. North was trying to get out from under a fiveyear, closed-shop contract which A. F. A. signed last year with the bankers with whom his ancestral tents were then in pawn. Mr. North retorted that Mr. Whitehead had stubbornly declined to face depression facts. Meantime, shrewd Mr. North was reported preparing a neat finesse. To the Ringling-owned, non-union Al G. Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus in the West would go such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the wire-walking Naittos...
When the quivering criminal who was nabbed in a pawn shop told investigators he "knew something" about the robbery here, the Providence force got in touch with colonel Apted who dashed off with a staff of witnesses to identify the victim...