Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Sept. 21 under the caption "Landing Gandhi" occurs the following sentence: "Among the volunteer workers of the Settlement House eager to skim the Mahatma's goat's milk were...
...Conservative headquarters party workers gathered, talked of Oct. 28 as the "dead cert." election date. Opinion hardened that the hesitant P.M. must decide for an election soon. Suddenly to cap Scot MacDonald's woes came an ultimatum from Mahatma Gandhi. Impatient of delay by the Indian Round Table Conference, Mr. Gandhi said that a month of further delay because of a General Election would be intolerable, would make it necessary for him to return to India. King George, too. was said last week to be opposing an election, fearful perhaps of social upheaval...
...small, nut-brown Mahatma Gandhi came last week that slightly florid human mountain, the House of Commons. In effect a special meeting of the House convened around him, using for this purpose the historic Grand Committee Room. Barefoot and barelegged as usual...
...Patterson tabloid New York Daily News, like many a reader of any newspaper, skips the editorials. But one day last week the News's editorial column was calculated to arrest the most cursory eye. On it appeared the picture of a pudgy male, clad only in underdrawers, squatting Gandhi-fashion at a spinning wheel. The body was the body of any corpulent, middle-aged man but the head was the head of Herbert Hoover...
...editorial hastened to explain: "We were so much impressed with the Gandhi [radio] speech that we tried to picture what a Western nation's leader would look like and how he would act if he were chosen according to Eastern standards. The result is the picture here shown-Mr. Hoover seated at a spinning wheel, contemplating his navel. There is no intention to ridicule anybody with this picture. It is merely meant to illustrate the great gulf that is fixed between Eastern and Western ideas...