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Word: durban (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a commonplace incident in the year 1893. A young Hindu lawyer, riding the train from Durban to Pretoria, would insist on sitting in a first-class compartment. Provincial constables would restore the situation to normal by ejecting 24-year-old Mohandas K. Gandhi at the next stop, a dusty station near the remote Natal-Transvaal frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: True Son | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...leader was pudgy, bespectacled Manilal Gandhi, 53-year-old son of the enshrined Mahatma. A veteran of repeated campaigns of passive resistance, Manilal Gandhi is editor of Durban's weekly newspaper Indian Opinion, founded by his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: True Son | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...Eileen Gibson, known as "Gay," they were forever resolved in the early morning of Oct. 18. Ninety miles off the coast of Portuguese Guinea, she was pushed through a porthole into the ocean -perhaps alive, perhaps dead-from a first-class cabin on "B" deck of the steamship Durban Castle. Eight days later, when the Durban Castle put into Southampton, detectives came aboard and arrested James Camb, a deck steward, for the murder of Eileen Gibson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Don Jimmy | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...that what Lincoln really had on his mind that fateful day was the patronage struggle for the Chicago postmastership. *Gandhi, like Lincoln, had his family sorrows. His first son Hiralal, who drinks, was estranged from Gandhi, was once a convert to Islam. Last week second son Manilal was in Durban, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...tterdämmerung. In Durban, South Africa, one A. Hitler was arrested and charged with assaulting his friend, Eva Braun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1947 | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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