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...Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned and let out of jail; gave 10,000 pairs of shoes to the poor; distributed lesser alms to 400,000. All objects deposited with Roman pawn shops between Jan. 1 and Feb. 15 last year and unredeemed to date were returned free to their owners as act of grace of Prince Ludovico Boncompagni, Governor of Rome...
...week, back in Wiesbaden, he startled onlookers by leaving his knight unprotected after an exchange of queens. Dr. Alekhine declined this Grecian gift. He only needed to draw to complete the 15½ points that would decide the championship and he got what he wanted with the rook and pawn ending. He had won 11 games, lost 5, drawn 9. Immediately Señor José Capablanca* mailed Dr. Alekhine a challenge for a match to be played in Manhattan or in Bradley Beach...
...behind the third sit the chubby brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen. On each of the three Boards a different consolidation game is being played. Last week two bold moves were made on the Van Sweringen board. Master Atterbury made the first when he captured a valuable pawn, the Pittsburgh and West Virginia. His Pennroad Corp. bought for $50.000,000 from Frank E. and Charles E. Taplin the controlling interest in the road. The loss of this key road is a setback to the Van Sweringen merger plans, which does not displease the Brothers Taplin, arch-enemies...
...Protestant Episcopal Church a dean is not a bishop's pawn, but deans and bishops go together. Where there is a bishop, there is a cathedral (in most cases); where a cathedral is, there is a dean. Since deans and bishops must see each other constantly to do ghostly and secular business together, it is well that they should dwell together in charity. Not always is this the case. Last winter Manhattan's Bishop William Thomas Manning, high-church authoritarian, fell out with Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, broad-church independent (TIME, Jan. 14). Said Dean Robbins: "There...
...less shrewd were New York detectives who last week arrested Donovan, starving, in a cheap Manhattan hotel; recovered the pawn tickets for the rings...