Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here ends the Cord Oath controversy. TIME is grateful for support and criticism of its policy, and repeats its promise to cause the minimum of offense in respect to newsworthy oaths.-ED. St. Gandhi's Teeth...
...like to see questions fought to a finish in your Letters column. You seem to have most minute information concerning the daily habits of Gandhi. In your own reply to Mr. Beals in the Feb. 1 issue, you describe how St. Gandhi cleans his teeth with a dantan. Perhaps he does, but if so he must hold them in his hand for tin-cleaning process. That is if Sherwood Eddy is the accurate observer that I judge him to be. For Mr. Eddy in his recent book The Challenge of the East writes as follows: ''We remember...
...Lord Willingdon well knew, Indian Nationalists were celebrating the third anniversary of St. Gandhi's declaration of independence. The Mahatma himself, rewarded for his good behavior in jail by permission to receive one visitor each week, squatted in his cell and talked to Disciple Madeline Slade about the two pounds he has gained. But outside Gandhites were far from peaceful...
...committees of the Round Table Conference prepared to resume sessions 24 native commercial organizations voted to suspend business for a week as a protest against the exclusion of St. Gandhi. The Bombay government retaliated by ordering the arrest of any merchant closing his place of business. At Ahmedabad an Indian surgeon was fined 1,000 rupees for refusing for the third time to remove the Gandhi tricolor from his dispensary. Unimpressed by the much publicized martyrdom of Krishna Kant (TIME, Jan. 25). a British magistrate ordered a 14-year-old boy flogged for picketing a British bank...
...Yerovda Jail near Poona, in a cell not far from the one which houses the sainted person of Mahatma Gandhi, one day last week sat another Nationalist leader named L. B. Bhopatkar. Suddenly he heard a warning shout, saw before him a large, ugly cobra. The warden who had shouted ran off for a club while Prisoner Bhopatkar was left alone with his cobra. Regarded as sacred by most Indians, the cobra must be avoided, not slain. But Prisoner Bhopatkar, locked in his cell, could not avoid this one. Unarmed, neither could he kill it. As the cobra fixed...