Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Post stated as a fact that Superintendent of Police Michael H. Crowley is "an admirer of Gandhi...
Nevertheless Superintendent Crowley said, commenting on Mayor Curley's royal promise, "We shall insist that Gandhi be suitably clothed. We can't let any man appear in the streets of Boston in very much less than a one-piece bathing suit...
...Boston last week Mayor Curley said: "We will give Gandhi a royal reception here. He is one of the world's great figures. Boston will be proud to entertain...
Plainly the Superintendent's cautious utterance was inspired by Mr. Gandhi's statement that he would not wear trousers while calling on King George and Queen Mary (TIME, April 13). But the scandal of what correspondents called "Gandhi's gossamer loin cloth" had assumed such world proportions last week that sensible St. Gandhi made an amplifying statement on the matter...
...That St. Gandhi will visit the U. S. was still uncertain last week, Boston's confident Mayor notwithstanding. More important than trouser-talk was Mr. Gandhi's abrupt decision to constitute himself the sole delegate of his Indian National Congress at the Second Indian Round Table Conference in London. With breath-taking simplicity he explained, "This arrangement will cost less...