Word: chandra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mind-Reader (Warner). Chandra Chandler (Warren William), alias Chandra the Great, Dr. Munro and the Great Divoni, starts as a fortune-teller in county fairs. He marries a smalltown girl (Constance Cummings), gives up his profession because she disapproves of it, resumes it after being a failure at selling brushes. His assistant (Allen Jenkins) functions as an impudent chauffeur who gathers from the councils of his confreres in garages the information that enables Chandra to become a highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends...
...camp of tents and bamboo shanties. Correspondents were not sure but what St. Gandhi was drawing near his Waterloo. Younger elements in the party were urging violent resistance to the British Raj. Leaders of this young rebellion against elderly, non-violent Mr. Gandhi were the Mayor of Calcutta, Subhas Chandra Bose and the retiring President of the Congress, Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru...
...dead of night. In London the Opposition press raged against the Viceroy's jail delivery, declared that he would be in "an almost ludicrously humiliating position" if the Gandhites continued to demonstrate for independence and had to be locked up again. In Calcutta, simultaneously, Nationalist S. Chandra Bose was let out of jail. He promptly resumed his Nationalist oratory, was locked up again by policemen who doubtless felt foolish. In London, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald all but sobbed with emotion in a typical appeal to the House of Commons as debate on the Round Table Conference work began...
Even this mild defiance was too strong for timorous Subas Chandra Bose, leader of the delegation from Bengal. Shocked at the fiery speeches of Pandit Nehru advocating "extreme civil disobedience," he stalked from the hall; 24 other Bengali scrambled to their feet and followed...