Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British goods are still boycotted widely in India despite the Gandhi-Irwin truce. Last week Bombay despatches reported that Indian merchants are now clearing their shelves of British cloth by "selling it in Persia, Irak and East Africa at less than production costs." Indian cloth mills at Bombay are enjoying boom prosperity, running 24 hours a day to keep pace with the demand, while more and more British mills close down in depressed, despairing Lancashire...
...Lone Delegate Gandhi persists in this purpose he plans, however, to take a small retinue of about ten assistants, including Miss Madeline Slade, daughter of a British Admiral, who cares for him, prepares his food. Mrs. Gandhi, according to reports last week, will as usual not accompany Mr. Gandhi and Miss Slade...
...Manhattan reports from India that "Gandhi has been offered a million dollars to lecture in America" were scoffed at by Manager James B. Pond of Pond's Lecture Bureau...
Eager to see how St. Gandhi would look in trousers, etc., International News Photos last week placed his head on the well-draped form of one Tod Marshall, male model at the convention of the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America in Pittsburgh, Pa. last January, retouched his hand to brown scrawniness...
Reassured, T. R. H. plunged again into a round of sports, balls, nightclubbing and worse. By "worse" is meant the escapade of Prince George. Having bathed at Copacabana Beach last week he walked out of the water, removed the upper half of his suit, lay down Gandhi-like on the sand...