Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress' way of doing things is to start an investigation-and one began immediately. First on the griddle were the Civil Aeronautics Administration and the Civil Aeronautics Board, which together regulate U.S. commercial aviation...
...Bardoli no-tax campaign of 1928. Despite the fact that crops had been bad for several years in the Bardoli district, a 25% tax increase was ordered by the Government assessors. This was precisely the opportunity Gandhi had been waiting for to launch the first real experiment in mass civil disobedience...
Arthur Henderson, Under Secretary of State for India, came in for final talks on the liquidation of those superlatively damned and praised institutions, the Indian Civil and Police Services. The question boiled down to a matter of severance pay; the 850 remaining British members wanted to get out. It was up to Patel to find the new men who, with the 750 Indians in the two Services, would rule India.* Nehru called twice. He and Patel have a deep bond of mutual attachment to Gandhi and to Indian independence. Otherwise, politically and temperamentally, they are antipodal. Two subjects almost certainly...
...symbolize Gandhi's cottage industry drive and to emphasize Congress leaders' connection with the toiling masses. But hand spinning is so inefficient that a khadi outfit costs as much as a good suit of English tweeds. *To Indians there are few if any callings higher than the Civil Service. A recent movie ad, stressing its subject's sacrificial devotion to her art, said: "She turned down an I.C.S. man to become a movie star...
While the first issue does contain an ill-considered article on the alleged demise of power politics, there are no notable weaknesses among its political pieces. Outstanding are Frederick Houghteling's review of Hya Ehrenburg's recent series of articles for "Harper's" and a report on the current civil war in China, by Allen Barton. Unlike most American reviewers of the Ehrenburg series, Houghteling sees correctly that despite Ehrenburg's criticism of America, his articles contain a message of hope for this country. For, says Houghteling, Ehrenburg could have written as frankly as he did of American prosperity...