Word: ainscough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propagandist, Mr. T. M. Ainscough, the Senior British Trade Commissioner in India, published last week his 1931 report. During half of that year the ''Gandhi-Irwin Truce" was in effect, and Indian boycotting of British goods was undoubtedly less effective than it has become since St. Gandhi was again jailed (TIME. Jan. 11). Dryly the Senior British Trade Commissioner set down that during 1931 British exports to India declined by more than one third...
...boycott movement" wrote Commissioner Ainscough "was ostensibly directed against all countries but imports from Japan continued to arrive and were sold in large quantities. . . . The boycott movement against [British] cigarets was very active and extended also to drugs, soaps, cycles, tires, bazaar metals, hardware and certain electrical accessories...
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