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...last week aboard 5. S. Rajpntana. Spurning the cabin which the Government had put aside for his use. he slept under a thin sheet on a hard wooden bench in the stern. The ship's cat. a huge black torn, developed a taste for the Mahatma's goat's milk and purred peaceably beside...
...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...
Governor Miller of Alabama flayed the Farm Board's plan as "unsound, unwise and impractical." Declared Governor Gardner of North Carolina: "I'm opposed to making the Southern cotton farmer the goat. In this State we didn't plant any third row of cotton this year." Governor Blackwood of South Carolina found the plan "utterly impractical" as each planter would want to let the others do the plowing under. Mused Governor Long of Louisiana noncommittally: "Sounds pretty good-but damned if I know." Governor Murray of Oklahoma turned the plan down with the suggestion that a four...
With the light of cut glass chandeliers gleaming on his venerable emaciated stomach, St. Gandhi attended a formal banquet in Bombay last week, drank a little goat's milk, spoke for two hours before an audience in faultless evening dress. Same day he wrote an editorial for hi.-; weekly. Young India...
...Churchill Downs. It is a festival touched by ceremonious mania, causing juniors to add to the gaiety of fraternity houseparties the absurd and jovial dignity of top-hats, frock-coats and waistcoats with pearl buttons. Seniors rig themselves on Derby Day in the clownish regalia of sailors, goat-bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom of a two-story charabanc, efforts were made to modify the diversions of Yale's Derby Day. It remained, last week, the chief holiday week...