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Word: gandhis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Migrating monkeys swarmed screeching into the Viceregal Capital of New Delhi last week, disturbed the repose of Their Excellencies the Viceroy and Lady Willingdon, made more trouble for the police than do St. Gandhi's non-violent Nationalists. Treating the monkeys exactly like Gandhites, police riot squads drove them out of town with lathis (long staves) every day. But every night the monkeys crept back to plague New Delhi, caused the United Press to report that "monkeys dominated the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Lathis for Monkeys | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...World (International Film Foundation) is an intelligent and heterogeneous compilation of newsreel shots on such matters as the War, Prohibition, U. S. Crime, Disarmament Conferences, Gandhi, Mussolini, Hoover. Hitler, the Japanese at Shanghai. Its grandiose title is meaningless and misleading. The picture is improved by its lack of a theme; the pleasure of watching it is analogous to that of reading the headlines of old newspapers. Good shots: Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. looking out of his window; Mahatma Gandhi with one finger on his nose; Mrs. Charles H. Sabin denouncing Prohibition; Manhattan police riding their horses into a crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

Indians, who could not be expected to understand why St. Gandhi was jailed "during His Majesty's pleasure," then feted at Buckingham Palace, then jailed a second time "during His Majesty's pleasure," were barred last week from beholding the newsreel Gandhi Meets The King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Durbar No. 2 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...True in the sense that the Irish Free State buys more from Great Britain per capita than any other country buys per capita. But British India alone buys twice as much as the Free State, even with St. Gandhi's boycott in force

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Guttersnipes! | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...promote good government throughout India the British Raj pardoned and released from jail last week numerous pickpockets and minor criminals, thus making room for followers of Mahatma Gandhi. Some 350 criminals were released from Yerovda Jail where St. Gandhi is held on no charge "during His Majesty's pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Durbar | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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