Word: ahmadabad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, Franklin D. Roosevelt (shown as a pipe smoker on TIME'S 13th cover) had returned from convalescence to take up a fruitless job as head of the American Construction Council. In Moscow, Joseph Stalin† was quietly getting his hammer lock on the Communist Party. In Ahmadabad, Gandhi, jailed, was finding words which were to become truth to scores of millions...
...citizens of Ahmadabad, Mohandas K. Gandhi proposed a modest program: "I'll be really satisfied if Ahmadabad fulfills my cherished dream by achieving the following things: untouchability must be rooted out. Hindus and Moslems should live as brothers. Men & women should be leading a regulated life. Disparity between rich and poor should disappear. Drink, evil and also gambling should be abolished. People should be habitual khadi [homespun cotton cloth] wearers. People should observe ideal cleansing mentally and bodily. Nobody should starve in Ahmadabad. Carry out as much as you can of the above. What else? You have my blessing...
This week militant Nationalists rioted in Bombay, Poona, Ahmadabad, marking a year of jail for Gandhi. Police arrested freely...
...strikes the tops of the tall mill chimneys at Ahmadabad, India's leading textile city, a hundred factory whistles shriek and scream the call to work. But there is no response. Doors remain closed and the streets empty. The mills remain idle, as they have been since August 9, the day Gandhi was arrested...
Chubby, pleasant Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third and youngest (27) son, was jailed. A ban on news of rioting and criticism of the Government led Indian newspapers in Calcutta (15), Bombay, Lucknow, Nagpur, Delhi and Ahmadabad to close...