Word: baroda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Walker arrived at Bremen with a headache. Max Schmeling, champion boxer, pounded his back in welcome. He looked over the street cleaning plant. His arrival at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin was compared to that of the Maharaja of Baroda. Women kissed him in the lobby. For his head he took aspirin, went out to a musical show, later toured the night clubs, was overwhelmed by U. S. tourists. He called on Baroness von Huenefeld, presented her with a lucky coin carried by her late Atlantic-flying son. Berlin's garbage plant was given a brief inspection...
...with a large number of guns and cameras great & small. There he planned to embark for the Protectorate of Cambodia in French Indo-China. His purpose: big-game hunting. He said he would call upon the Emperor of Japan, the King of Siam, the native rulers of Rajputana and Baroda...
...paying what His Majesty's Government call, quite accurately, "nor-mal taxes." Physical extortion, even of taxes, is in law virtually everywhere a crime. Briton Brailsford reports that the Indian agents of the British Government have pursued tax evaders out of British India into the native State of Baroda and beaten them there. This is a crime for which the Man of the Year in Yerovila Jail at Poona is to blame. He is to blame because, although His Majesty's Government have got him in a jail staffed by British jailers, they have not yet stopped...
...wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next is John Pierpont Morgan. Below this quintet come Sir Basil Zaharoff and His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda...
That Mohammedan reprisals against followers of Hindu St. Gandhi did not at once break out was due to his great shrewdness. Before he was spirited off to jail he appointed as his successor that venerable Mohammedan Abbas Tyabji, onetime judge of the Baroda court. Result: at Amritsar leaders of the Sikh Mohammedans, "best fighters in India," last week declared for St. Gandhi and independence...