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Word: framji (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First shot in New Jersey's gubernatorial campaign was immediately fired not by Democrat Moore nor Republican Clee but by an Independent, a Parsi named Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali, whose first name means "King of Duty." Born in Bombay 63 years ago, King of Duty Ghadiali has been, according to his own account, a wireless experimenter at Hillsdale, N. J., a medical student, export manager of a smelting company at Union, N. J., an assistant professor of mathematics in Bombay, manager of Bombay's first cinemansion, a commander in the New York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Preacher and Parsi | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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