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The one point of agreement between President Cosgrave of Ireland and his bitter opponent De Valera, leader of the Sinn Fein, has been a common desire to see Gaelic culture and the Gaelic language predominant in the newly autonomous state. In Wales, recently a similar movement has gained official recognition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TONGUE NOBODY KNOWS | 2/4/1928 | See Source »

India in the midst of a revolution, social, political, and industrial, was the picture of his native country as described by Dhan Gopal Mukerji to a CRIMSON reporter last night. Mukerji is the author of several books depicting Indian life and philosophy, outstanding of which are "Caste and Outcast" and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUKERJI DISCUSSES CONDITIONS IN INDIA | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

"The social revolution is manifest in the breaking down of the Caste system," pointed out the Indian writer, "and that overturning of the caste-system is the direct consequence of the industrial and economic revolution. At the top of the old caste system stood the Brahmins, followed by the princes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUKERJI DISCUSSES CONDITIONS IN INDIA | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

The goal of the seven wise men, comprising the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9) is nobly to create a work able plan which will bring more autonomous sovereignty and wider democracy to 318,940,000 backward, caste-divided Indians, now split among themselves upon an infinitude of religious and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To India | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

A miscast half-caste, Dolores del Rio, shaking her sex-appeal in all directions, presses vigorously through the plot and against Walter Pidgeon the leading man. To her able acting in What Price Glory, such a specialized performance is a disappointing sequel. Nonetheless, it is sufficient to give an otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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