Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five o'clock in the morning Mabel was asleep and I went out to take a walk on a station platform. Someone stole my pocket book with all my money, my passport, two crystal bracelets and some samples of window curtains that my mother wanted me to buy in Italy...
Sudden arrest, a fine of 1,000 rupees and a jail sentence of three months was the punishment, last week, of an Indian publisher and an Indian printer who dared to put forth at Calcutta last year a chunky, controversial book by a snowy-haired, upstanding Poughkeepsie clergyman. Publisher Ramananda Chatterjee and Printer Sajami Das were punished for "sedition." The sedition is supposed to lurk between the pages of the book, India in Bondage- Her Right to Freedom. Last week when Poughkeepsie reporters sought out the author, Dr. Jabez Thomas Sunderland, he was ready for them, ready to wield...
Suppressed last week, why was not the book suppressed sooner? It has sold in the thousands for a twelvemonth. A second Calcutta edition appeared last Spring...
Since then a new British Government has come in, the Labor Cabinet headed by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. "If Chatterjee and Das are guilty of sedition for publishing my book," cried Poughkeepsie's Sunderland last week, "then Ramsay MacDonald and other [Labor] members of the British Parliament are also guilty, for the most extremist and seditious passages in my book are quotations from these great and honored Englishmen...
...effect Dr. Sunderland's book today amounts to asking: Well, why does not Prime Minister MacDonald free India...