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...strike, rushed to try and put themselves in the way of blows. Correspondent Farson saw one woman hold up her baby and endeavor to secure for it a crack on the head. When he expressed his horror to her through an interpreter she remained unmoved, anxious to sacrifice her babe to the Cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: No Police Were Touched | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...Gandhi were a newborn babe, if James Ramsay MacDonald were his proud father, St. Gandhi could not have been treated with more tender, solicitous care than was lavished by His Majesty's Government last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Lady After Saint | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Bloomingdale Bros. proudly supervised the laying of a cornerstone for their new store. Enclosed in the cornerstone were: a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth; a roll of ticker-tape; a horseshoe; a pair of eyeglasses; some sheet music; a telephotograph of Charles A. Lindbergh and wife; a wedding ring; several hundred flower seeds; a copy of the Congressional Record; a subway strap; some newspapers; a forecast of the future by Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Record | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...York Yankees (American League). Average salary for a young major-leaguer is $5.000. The Yankees are a very highly-paid team. With his $80,000 Babe Ruth gets $5,000 more than the President of the U. S. Lou Gehrig makes about $30,000. Their troubles last year were the left side of the infield, Ruths sickness, Gehrig's hitting slump. They are depending on the batting and fielding of able Left Fielder Dusty Cooke and of Ben Chapman on third. Until the young pitchers show class, much depends on old timers Pennock and Hoyt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...under 18 to marry anywhere in British India would go into effect. Mr. Gandhi knew that as he spoke hundreds of children all over India were being married by parents frantically anxious to get their sons and daughters in under the wire. (Theory: a mature man who marries a babe, aged two, knows that the young spouse is without worldly taint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Saint's Progress | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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