Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robbers retreated, tigers turned tail as a rickety automobile sped out of the Himalayas late one night last week. In the car was little baldheaded, featherweight Mahatma Gandhi. He had just two hours to cover 100 miles?over roads so perilous that night driving is usually prohibited?to Kalka. Arriving at Kalka in time's nick, he was cheered by a crowd of devotees as he boarded the frontier express for Bombay. En route, admirers gave him coins and homespun yarn. One woman auspiciously sprinkled his forehead with red powder. From Bombay he was to sail for London...
Just how the little brown man justified his sudden haste to join the meeting, after turning stubborn at the last moment fortnight ago and refusing to sail with his colleagues (TIME, Aug. 31), was not made completely clear. St. Gandhi had accused the British of violating the Delhi pact, of coercing natives to pay taxes by such extreme measures as locking them up in rooms filled with angry hornets. He said he would not leave India until Viceroy Willingdon promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little...
...Gandhi then said goodbye to his wife and son, boarded the S. S. Rajputana with his English disciple. Miss Madeline Slade (Srimati Mira Bai).* His two goats were left behind, but he had provided himself with 30 quarts of pasteurized goat's milk and enough dried fruit to live on until he reaches London. In his meagre luggage there was also a copy of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience. Discovery of this fact set observers to wondering if the Mahatma had borrowed his catchword and chief weapon from the New England sage...
...Mahatma Gandhi, still trying to make up his mind at Simla whether or not to attend a round table conference at London, retired from the world last week for his customary Day of Silence. Emerging 24 hours later, he was respectfully begged by British reporters to outline what he considered his Ten Commandments for an ideal life. St. Gandhi blinked modestly behind his glittering spectacles...
...India (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ramon Novarro, dressed in a turban and sitting on top of an elephant, does not look in the least like Mahatma Gandhi nor any other East Indian. He does, however, look enough like the late Rudolph Valentino to inspire audience reactions of the Valentino kind if not the same degree. In this picture Novarro is an Indian merchant prince in love with a girl from Boston whose brother has once done the Indian a great favor. He has a chance to show his gratitude when the brother underlines the difficulties of inter-racial marriage. Indian pictures...