Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the problem which Mahatma Gandhi and the All-India Nationalist Congress last week prepared to tackle with a new plan, the Wardha Education Scheme (named after Gandhi's headquarters). Its goal: a school in every village. These schools (vidya mandirs: "temples of learning") will be opened in 166 villages of one province next month and the Central Advisory Board of Education is planning to establish them soon throughout India. Championing the plan is the board's bespectacled, English-educated president, Bal Gangadhar Kher, Premier of Bombay, father of five children and himself a one-time schoolteacher...
Beniamino Bufano is a small, swart, untamable sculptor of 40, whose adventures have included sojourns with China's sainted Sun Yatsen, India's Mahatma Gandhi. For about ten years he has been possessed by the ambition to give San Francisco a colossal statue of its "patron" St. Francis of Assisi, envisioned finally as a 150-ft. figure of glittering stainless steel. His first model for this won the approval of the local WPA, of Archbishop John Joseph Mitty, and, in the end, of the San Francisco art commission. Leading U. S. Franciscans, however, called it a "Mephistophelean monstrosity...
...violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences at the University of Denver, he picked Ben Cherrington from a YMCA student job to direct it. Director Cherrington began by asking 150 serious thinkers, including Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jan Smuts, Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound, Ramsay MacDonald, Herbert Hoover: "What would you do?" Consensus was to tackle international problems, and Dr. Cherrington did, with endless lectures, seminars, model League of Nations assemblies, dinners and luncheons which after twelve years make visiting foreigners wonder why landlocked Denver is so world...
Naturally enough, the Indian National Merchants' Association of Zanzibar objected. Before long half of its members were out of work. Finally, after four years of railing against the English association, its bearded President Tayyib Ali took the problem to Mahatma Gandhi. Last September, India's National Congress appointed the Mahatma's first lieutenant, rich Vallabhbhai Patel as chairman of a committee to look into a boycott of Zanzibar cloves...
Moreover, the great majority of those who attended the meeting were small fry, politically and economically. Even Congress members who hold cabinet rank in Indian provinces are held down by Saint Gandhi to a salary of 500 rupees per month (non-Congress assistants get some 2,500), are forced to travel third class, refuse social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor...