Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ornate and gleaming New Delhi, the $50,000,000 Viceregal Capital, swarthy politicos of India's Legislative Assembly jabberingly debated last week the Gargantuan British bill-longest ever submitted to the House of Commons-which is to give India a new Status (TIME...
...Delhi's Legislators could neither pass nor reject this bill, which lay last week some 5,000 miles away on Parliament's great oak table, but they could endorse or denounce officially an epochal measure already roundly cursed by Mahatma Gandhi's unofficial Indian National Congress. The New Delhi Legislators are supposed to be Viceroy Lord Willingdon's trained seals, if an Englishman can tram Indians. Last week they decided to vote on the major premise of the proposed new status...
...Today, five years later, India's potentates are getting restless on their motionless bandwagon seats. Significantly last week it became known that His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, ''Richest Man In The World," now thinks he was "coerced" into approving Federation. Last week at New Delhi the trained seals of the Legislative Assembly pained Viceregal Seal-master Willingdon by voting 74 to 58 that the basic principle of All-India Federation is "fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable to the people of British India...
...theatres, stores, railroads. Besides a long and imposing list of industrial customers, Carrier equipment manufactures weather in the Senate Chamber and House of Representatives; the White House executive offices; the ape-house of The Bronx Zoo; Atlantic City's convention hall; the London Daily Mail; the Secretariat in Delhi, India; Manhattan's RCA Building; San Francisco's Stock Exchange. Lately Mr. Carrier contracted to air condition the world's deepest gold mine, in South Africa...
...Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate...