Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Poetess Mrs. Sarojini Chattopadhyav Naidu became Acting President of the Indian National Congress, the sixth Acting President appointed since St. Gandhi was clapped into jail in January (TIME, Jan. 11). Poetess Naidu is still rich, still a potent poetess, but the slender, bashful Victorian maiden has become a matron with grown children who now devotes her large person and her vast wealth to the cause of Indian Independence. Fully expecting that His Majesty's Government would soon jail her, Mrs. Naidu keynoted while she could last week these facts...
...propagandist, Mr. T. M. Ainscough, the Senior British Trade Commissioner in India, published last week his 1931 report. During half of that year the ''Gandhi-Irwin Truce" was in effect, and Indian boycotting of British goods was undoubtedly less effective than it has become since St. Gandhi was again jailed (TIME. Jan. 11). Dryly the Senior British Trade Commissioner set down that during 1931 British exports to India declined by more than one third...
...would look younger and better than he really does. ... So we notice that he left his artificial dentistry for its strictly scientific use at the next meal, and went on his way a smiling, toothless old man." Can TIME'S correspondent arrange to count St. Gandhi's teeth (or tooth) and settle this...
...Gandhi has three teeth (two upper incisors, one lower left center). He keeps them clean by the dantan, also necessary for tongue-cleansing, as explained by TIME. Eating no meat, he uses his false teeth on few occasions.-ED. Dickey Underbid...
...Mahatma Gandhi smiled a smile of paternal satisfaction last week as the fourth member of his family went to jail. He had been highly pleased when his second son Harilal, onetime foe of Nationalism, renounced his opposition and went to prison in Ahmedabad. But his youngest son did even more. Last week Devi Das Gandhi, 20, was to have married the 19-year-old daughter of his father's good friend C. R. Rajagopalachari. A war rant was out for the arrest of Devi Das. If he tried to go to the northwestern frontier, where trouble was brewing...