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Word: gandhis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State for India he used to be driven daily to St. James's Palace in a minute Baby Austin, while the rajas and tnaharajas arrived in mammoth Daimler limousines in imitation of the King - but Sam Hoare soon showed who was master. At his first encounter with Mahatma Gandhi, then virtually a saint with tremendous kudos which had carried him straight from jail to Bucking ham Palace, Sir Samuel declared bluntly that he would give India just so much additional freedom and no more. "If this displeases you. Mr. Gandhi," said the Secretary of State for India. "I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New British Strategy | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

When the Transvaal began to heave and simmer over the volcanic question of Indian immigration, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi-not vet a Mahatma but already a smart agitator-challenged the Government to slippery grips, it was Smuts who had to bear the onus of sending him to jail. When labor troubles invaded the Johannesburg mines, it was Smuts who alienated the workers by ordering out troops, arresting and deporting the labor leaders without trial. It was also Smuts who got most of the criticism, little of the credit, for the. Union of South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Boer | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Sanger spent three days with that half-forgotten little holy man, the Mahatma Gandhi.* He, said she, believes "that women should control the whole question of family-how many children and when. He went me one better on that score: I believe that men should say how many children and the women should say when. After all, the fathers have to support the children." But Mrs. Sanger did not bring away St. Gandhi's complete indorsement of her work. Explained she: "He just didn't know much about the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Birth Control's Week | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Lawson bit, sent him. In a 26-ft. sailboat the Farsons chugged, sailed or were towed from Rotterdam to the Danube delta. Husband Farson's news-dispatches paid for the trip. Thereafter for eleven years Farson covered the Eastern Hemisphere, from Gandhi to Stalin to Ramsay MacDonald, for the Daily News. Finally he was given the coveted London post, held it for four years, resigned because the News considered his viewpoint had become too Anglicized. Back again in the U. S., with a 21-year career behind him, and no longer quite so "naïve and fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heretic | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...Mahatma Gandhi's secretary: "It is impossible for Mr. Gandhi to comment on the death of Mr. Kipling because two more of Mr. Gandhi's front teeth have just had to be extracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King of English | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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