Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned down Bobby Jones, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler (who had just mobilized an unexpected 6,401,210 Nazi votes in Germany) to make Mohandas K. Gandhi Man of 1930. He was in jail when his selection was announced in TIME-for launching civil disobedience to get the British out of India. Next year was "a lean year for everybody," as old Ramsay MacDonald put it: Man of 1931 was Pierre Laval, picked for having steered France prosperously through 12 months which had meant breadlines in almost every other land (Laval hasn't had a good year since...
...citizens of Ahmadabad, Mohandas K. Gandhi proposed a modest program: "I'll be really satisfied if Ahmadabad fulfills my cherished dream by achieving the following things: untouchability must be rooted out. Hindus and Moslems should live as brothers. Men & women should be leading a regulated life. Disparity between rich and poor should disappear. Drink, evil and also gambling should be abolished. People should be habitual khadi [homespun cotton cloth] wearers. People should observe ideal cleansing mentally and bodily. Nobody should starve in Ahmadabad. Carry out as much as you can of the above. What else? You have my blessing...
There are as many Indians (200,000) in the South African province of Natal as in the Indian city of Benares. Some 35 years ago Mohandas K. Gandhi, then a fully clothed Natal attorney (see cut), first used passive resistance in defending the Natal Indians against repressive race legislation...
...talker from way back, Sandefer began his Indian operations in fine style. He made a spur-of-the-moment promise to a group of New Delhi charitarians : to give them a party at Viceroy Viscount Wavell's palace. The Viceroy proved willing. The Texan also called on Mahatma Gandhi, and offered him ten four-year Hardin-Simmons scholarships for Indians. Gandhi promptly took...
British officials, unaware that Sandefer once taught the subtleties of the lariat to the Kaiser, wondered what kind of Western rope trick this was. Just what was he cooking up with Gandhi, and did he have any "political aspirations?" To the first question, Gib Sandefer drawled that he was just a "monkey-tailed Baptist that had gone down for a little fellowship" with India's wily saint. To the political question, he answered Yes-he wanted some day to be chief of the Maryneal, Tex., fire department. British officialdom decided that he was loco but harmless...