Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer). Kagawa founded the Farmer-Peasant Party, has sat in the Japanese Diet as its only outspoken radical. The Government used to put him in jail for helping strikers and stirring up the populace. He would smile amiably, preach to anyone who listened, continue writing books. Like the Mahatma Gandhi, Kagawa keeps a day of silence every week. He too has foreign followers. His Madeline Slade is a Miss Helen Topping, who notes down everything he says. Rare is the Kagawa day that does not begin with prayers long before dawn, continue 18 or 20 hours. He speaks nearly every...
...president of his church's international body, onetime Detroit Newsman, at present a correspondent for the Christian Century, Author Jones knows his preachers well. He portrays 32 of them, chosen after careful consultations among fellow-preachers. Excerpts: ¶ Frederick Bohn Fisher of Ann Arbor. Mich, is the Mahatma Gandhi's most impassioned U. S. devotee. A Methodist missionary in India, he was made a bishop in 1920, resigned in 1930 because his job was "too much burdened with administration and too little harnessed to definite spiritual functions." Of him St. Gandhi has said: "Bishop Fred Fisher first came...
...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...
...Barreras, president of the Cuban Senate, fugitive Machadista, of abrasions suffered when an automobile belonging to New York's ex-Mayor John F. Hylan in which he was riding collided with an ambulance on Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan; Stage Actress Grace George, of a nervous breakdown, in Manhattan; Mahatma Gandhi, unconditionally released by the British Government after a seven days' fast in prison, at the Parnakuti villa of his faithful friend Lady Vitall Das Thackersey...
Foremost among the TIME actors are William Adams who speaks as two Presidents. Roosevelt and von Hindenburg, Jack Smart who speaks as Huey Long; Ted de Corsia who does Mussolini and Herbert Hoover. Alfred Shirley is three British subjects, Ramsay MacDonald, the Prince of Wales and Mahatma Gandhi. Marian Hopkinson is Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt; Westbrook Van Voorhis, Hitler; Porter Hall, Stalin. Barbara Bruce is Frances Perkins and Mrs. James Roosevelt (the President's mother). Remains to be seen whether Pedro de Cordoba (ex-King Alfonso of Spain), John Battle (Vice President Garner) and Charles Slattery (Al Smith) will...