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...salutes for: Postmaster General Farley, President Roosevelt, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda, ex-President Hoover...
...distinguished visitor was "the seventh richest man in the world," the temporal and spiritual head of nearly 2,500,000 Hindus and Moslems-His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns." When he visited the World's Fair last week, to his and its immense delight he got his salute. Fair President Rufus Dawes had soldiers drawn up along Michigan Avenue and marched with the Gaekwar in pomp befitting the Fair's first...
Reputed the most progressive of Indian potentates, first (40 years ago) to make universal education compulsory, and lately to permit divorces, the Gaekwar has amazed his Hindus by building a mosque for Mohammedans, amazed both sects by sitting down with Untouchables. Last week in Chicago, having told the World Fellowship that any religion needs first ''decoding-that the modern man may understand it, and then 'debunking' that the modern man may respect it," the Gaekwar received the Press in his bungalow atop the Hotel Morrison...
...form of his caste marks would show from what city and what church he came. A New York Presbyterian would wear a certain sign. A Chicago Methodist would have another mark. I am a very rich man. and so people approach me with special marks of reverence." And the Gaekwar demonstrated by placing folded hands on his forehead. Invited to attend the Chicago meetings, Mahatma Gandhi cabled Bishop McConnell last May: CAN REPLY ONLY AFTER BREAK FAST. Last week he added: FELLOWSHIP FAITHS ATTAINABLE ONLY BY MUTUAL RESPECT IN ACTION FOR FAITHS SORRY VISIT OCTOBER UNLIKELY...
...Thus in 1853 the Star of the South [254 carats and up to last week the largest diamond ever discovered in Brazil] was sold in the rough for $200,000. Jewelers who cut it down to a flawless, polished stone of 125 carats sold that to H. H. the Gaekwar of Baroda for $400,000, also sold other parts of the Star of the South for good prices.) In Amsterdam last week miserable striking diamond cutters went back to work for a reduced wage of 25 florins ($10) per week...