Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchester an angry mob, tired of hurling rocks, took a leaf from the Book of Gandhi. Having rioted for the better part of an hour they squatted in the road, blocked traffic. Unlike orthodox Hindu passive resisters they were not trained to withstand baton blows. After one police charge, Manchester's unemployed began to riot again...
Preached famed Rev. John Haynes Holmes in Manhattan on Mahatma Gandhi: "He has the dignity of a king. . . . Where do people get the idea that he is ugly? . . . His frame is large and his stature is erect and tall...
Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg, 84; William Wrigley Jr., 70; Oscar (Waldorf; Tschirky, 65; Mahatma Gandhi, 62; Charles (''Gabby") Street, 49; Hugh Herndon...
...Gandhi pattered to the rostrum, squatted beneath his tentlike shawl, submitted him self to heckling by some of the world's most talented hecklers, Britain's best. "What I want to know," drawled the first Parliamentary questioner, "is what does this term Mahatma mean? What is a Mahatma?" To catch the little man's low answer everyone strained forward, especially Miss Megan Lloyd George, buxom M. P. "Mahatma, sir," smiled Mr. Gandhi, "means 'an insignificant person.' " Hastily the British chairman interjected, "I am sure we all know that Mahatma is an Indian term meaning...
...leave our people too much leisure. Also we would produce more than we need and thus enforce idleness upon some other part of the world as a result of our overproduction." Abruptly St. Gandhi jerked out his dollar watch, announced that it was 7 p.m.-time to pray. Mr. Chaplin was moved to kneel and he scarcely wobbled during the long Hindu prayer. Departing after some further talk with the Mahatma, Charlie Chaplin gasped to reporters: "Gandhi is a tremendous personality, tremendous! He is a great international figure! More, he is A GREAT DRAMATIC FIGURE." Gandhi to Lancashire, Climax...