Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These things were happening and yet the British Government of India did nothing last week. His Majesty's viceroy, Baron Irwin, sat as placidly and as expectantly at his desk in Government House, New Delhi, as did St. Gandhi by the sea. When the sun evaporated enough water to produce a few pinches of salt the momentous grains were sold to eager bidders for a total of $160. This act was analogous to a sale in the middle of Main Street of a case of Scotch...
...Delhi, India, was the ancient capital of the Mogul Empire. Once the glittering bazaars along its Chandni Chauk (silver street) made it the richest thoroughfare in the world. Nearby still loom the three domes of the Jamma Musjid or Great Mosque, a fabulous and mighty shrine...
...Delhi, in southeastern New York, contains some 2,000 souls, is known as "The Village Beautiful" and its main street is concreted and curbed. It has six churches, and last week many of its churchgoers were proud. Reason: in one week two upright sons of Delhi had become newsworthy U. S. divines...
Sheldon Munson Griswold was born in Delhi 69 years ago. He went to Union College (1882) and General Theological Seminary. In 1885 he married a Schenectady girl. Leaving the simple life and worship of Delhi, he held several Episcopal pastorates in New York (Ilion, Little Falls, Hudson), adopted the extreme, elaborate ritualistic observances of the Anglo-Catholic group in the Episcopal Church. For the last 13 years he has been Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, a popular figure...
William Courtland Robinson has stuck closer to his home town. For ten years, in fact, he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Delhi. Last week he accepted, a position which will take him away from Delhi, to Philadelphia. A conservative theologian, he was made Editor of The Presbyterian (weekly), succeeding Dr. Samuel G. Craig who was ousted (TIME...