Word: baroda
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...distinguished visitor was "the seventh richest man in the world," the temporal and spiritual head of nearly 2,500,000 Hindus and Moslems-His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns." When he visited the World's Fair last week, to his and its immense delight he got his salute. Fair President Rufus Dawes had soldiers drawn up along Michigan Avenue and marched with the Gaekwar in pomp befitting the Fair's first...
...Star of the South [254 carats and up to last week the largest diamond ever discovered in Brazil] was sold in the rough for $200,000. Jewelers who cut it down to a flawless, polished stone of 125 carats sold that to H. H. the Gaekwar of Baroda for $400,000, also sold other parts of the Star of the South for good prices.) In Amsterdam last week miserable striking diamond cutters went back to work for a reduced wage of 25 florins ($10) per week...
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...