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These porcelain figures are chessmen from the U.S.S.R., where chess is the most popular indoor sport and chess pieces represent figures in the class struggle. The chained worker is a capitalist pawn. The sinister piece whose head is a grimacing skull is the capitalist king. The rugged collective farmer is a communist pawn. The aproned worker is a communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most...
...Liberia's elected rulers have sometimes acted on other principles. In 1930, a League of Nations Commission accused former (1928) Vice President Allen N. Yancey of conniving with other Liberian officials to pawn hundreds of native laborers into near-slavery. Tubman was Yancey's legal adviser...
...Real Adversary. Bolivia is a small and pathetic pawn; the real protagonist is Argentina. Revolution in Bolivia would have stirred hardly a ripple if it had been solely a Bolivian affair; the U.S. has recognized other juntas, other Fascistlike regimes in Latin America. Even now the issue is not simply that Argentina's authoritarian regime stands accused of sponsoring a similar regime in Bolivia. The issue is that these regimes endanger...
...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...