Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heritage. It was perhaps a tragic accident-though its symbolism can scarcely escape a death-ridden world-that none of Father Marx's beloved children lived happily; the two daughters who survived him committed suicide. But he was to have other children. They came to him by the thousands. Dr. Crankley's spiritual children inherited in varying degree his three outstanding characteristics: pity, hatred and love of power...
Probing deeper for the roots of violence, the government reached into two Hindu princely states, Alwar and Bharatpur. The two Maharajas, suspected of encouraging extremists, were deposed. During communal riots last year, every Moslem in Alwar was either killed or driven out of the state. When Gandhi's death was announced, saffron-robed holy men had distributed sweets, shouting "Gandhi mar; bhagwa jhenda zindabad!" ("Gandhi is dead; long live the Hindu flag...
...third floor, Boarder Alice Conners smelled smoke, woke as many as she could. One aged man and two aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...
While the world mourned Gandhi's death (see FOREIGN NEWS), his resonant, British-accented voice could still be heard. Columbia Records was busy rushing to dealers a repressing of a record Gandhi made 16 years ago. Excerpts...
...ever-changing, ever-dying, there is, underlying all that change, a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God. . . . I see it as purely benevolent, for I can see that in the midst of death, life persists; in the midst of untruth, truth persists; in the midst of darkness, light persists. Hence I gather that God is life, truth and light. He is love. He is the supreme good. But he is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if he ever does...