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...temporal matters, the recent visit of the religious leader to Boston stimulates discussion on the pending crisis in India as well as on the whole question of self-government. India is at the rebellion point; but it is a rebellion, typically oriental, that instead of rising to a boil congeals to passive and all-expanding ice. It is a rebellion typically modern in that it aims to force the English out of the government by forcing them out of business. Above all it is a rebellion intensified by the personality of Mahatma Gandhi with whom originated the plan of passive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE SALVATION | 3/11/1930 | See Source »

...Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could come to a political boil in New Zealand, Prime Minister Ward made his move. He arranged that any "conchy" (conscientious objector) not desiring to drill with the military, should drill with the Salvation Army, receive "training in social service," learn to sing hosannahs, jingle tambourines, sell The War Cry (Salvation weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Salvation for Conchies | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...There "safe" throngs throated the governor as he embarked on an experiment shrewd in motive. He would leave his train and motor to Providence, R. I., through the mill towns of the Blackstone Valley which are traditionally Republican, French-Canadian, wet and Roman Catholic. Let the human test-tubes boil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Atlantic | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Infected persons should boil their towels, socks, gloves and linens for 15 minutes to kill the ringworm organisms. They must avoid infecting others; they should sleep with no one, at least while the disease is active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ringworm | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth. And that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Great & Fake Oath | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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