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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They thus went into nation-wide mourning to emphasize the Indian view of what has been taking place since the Mother of Parliaments enacted in London a new Constitution for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). The most recent key event was for the Indian National Congress Party, long headed by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, to win elections giving it a majority in the legislatures of Bombay Presidency, Madras, Bihar and Orissa, the Central Provinces and the United Provinces (TIME, March 8). Together these make up three quarters of the population of British India. Taking returns from all provinces into account...
...well they are doing in the unsettled present, they are in no doubt about the glories of their past, and these glories they keep bright with anniversary celebrations. Having lately joined with other churches in celebrating the centenary of the birth of Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (TIME, Aug. 17), U. S. Presbyterians next laid plans to recall the fact that Presbyterian foreign missions were instituted a century ago. From this spring to next autumn the centenary will be celebrated with a pageant, a play, many a speech and a broadcast dinner. To the Centennial Council it seemed that a special...
...readers who remember such zip-past-the-window milestones as prize novels, it may seem only yesterday that Paul Morgan won a Harper $7,500 prize with his first published book. The Fault of Angels (TIME, Aug. 28, 1933), a lightly satirical story of the Rochester, N. Y. music colony. Actually Author Horgan has since then written three others. Last week his latest went zipping past the window. This time it was less like a milestone than a winged western sandwich with the lifegiving onion omitted...
...That was Aug. 4, 1802. A week later, following the inquest, Lizzie Borden was indicted for the murder of her father and stepmother. It was known that the Bordens were not a happy family. Lizzie and her older sister (who was visiting friends at the time of the murders) resented their stepmother, kept to themselves as much as possible in the front of the house. By Fall River standards of those days, Mr. Borden was a rich man. Two days before the inquest, Lizzie burned up a dress. Her testimony at the inquest-she was never put on the stand...
...years afterwards the Fall River Globe kept the bloody memory of Aug. 4 alive, every year on that date ran a thinly veiled attack on Lizzie Borden. Fall River citizens shunned her on the street. She changed her name to Lizbeth, but refused to move away. Did Sister Emma suspect her? No one knows. They lived together for eleven years, then Emma left her, never saw Lizzie again. When they died, in the same year (1927), they were buried in the Fall River cemetery alongside the others...