Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington, author of the Federal Radio Commission Bill, will speak in the Harvard Union under the auspices of the Democratic Club today at 4 o'clock. At 3 o'clock the club committee on foreign research, organized to investigate possible issues of foreign policy of...
Because no one of the members* of the Commission is an Indian, there have been roused such furies of resentment and misunderstanding that mild, humanitarian Sir John Simon had to be escorted last week by a guard of soldiers.
Violence. Since the well-guarded Commission was not actually attacked, the points of significance with regard to violence were that at Madras British police were obliged to fire upon the mobs, killing two Indians, in order to restore order; that in Calcutta a mob of 10,000 students hurled brickbats...
Hartal. Comfort for Britons lay in the small success achieved by Swarajist leaders, last week, in organizing a hartal or "strike in mourning" against the Commission. Most industrial workers who struck at all struck for only part of one day, and a large majority of Indian shop-keepers ignored the...
"Helped or impeded, the Commission will go forward with its work. Justification of our authority in India lies in the work we have accomplished." Exuberance. Individually the hartal groups "frothed" by burning Sir John Simon and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin repeatedly in effigy, and by sending out to greet the...