Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mahatma Gandhi dropped his anti-British disobedience campaign and turned to such a forlorn cause as abolishing Untouchability, more and more of India's Hindus have turned away from him. In 1930 when he was all India's idol and a prisoner in the Poona jail, he whiled away the time translating from Sanskrit into English hymns from the Upanishads and other Sanskrit scriptures and from the Bhakti poets. Last week Macmillan Co. published his Songs From Prison. Samples...
Since many of his old followers have broken away in an opposition led by the highcaste Hindu Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Gandhi has not been so humble. Last April he said tartly that the civil disobedience campaign should be resumed "in my lifetime only under my direction." Since April the little man has been stoned and bombed. And last week he announced that he will soon visit the Afghan border to support his Afghan disciple, Abdul Gaffur Khan ("The Frontier Gandhi"), and "gauge the strength of the spirit of non-violence among the tribes...
...amid the wild beauty of the Slovene Alps. There the courtship ripened as George, 31, and Marina, 27, swam in the icy lake, galloped over mountain trails and strolled in the great park. The couple were dogged constantly by Inspector Harry Evans of Scotland Yard who has dogged Mahatma Gandhi, spends much time dogging Cabinet Ministers. One night Prince George sent a long cablegram to King George at Balmoral Castle amid Scottish scenery even wilder than the Slovene. Next day Prince Paul and his wife Princess Olga, eldest sister of Princess Marina, chaperoned her and Prince George on an excursion...
...Allahabad, India, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department sent a native detective to find out where Mahatma Gandhi gets his funds. The detective spied on Gandhi, reported: "The Mahatma called to him a woman from the crowd, asked what she intended to do with such beautiful pearl earrings. While talking he gently removed them and then auctioned them off. . . . Thus does the Mahatma replenish his cash box, Sahib...
...made up of separatist ministers and isolationist churches," is too individualistic. From Professor Reinhold Niebuhr they heard praise of sane optimism which comes after despair and suffering. From Rev. John Haynes Holmes they heard that contemporary civilization is collapsing, although it has produced four great men: Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Gandhi. Northern Baptists numbering 3,500 met in Rochester, N. Y. As their new president they elected Dr. Avery Albert Shaw, president of Denison University in Granville, Ohio and president of the Baptist Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board. The convention voted to merge its diffuse budgets and to combine separate education...