Word: indians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Simon returned to London from India last week. He is the great Liberal barrister who is Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9 et seq.). The Seven Wise Commissioners have now completed their first visit to India, a visit which has been punctuated by numerous riots and demonstrations against them. Their mission is to recommend, after much further study, what additional measure of sovereignty shall be extended to Indians. Last week Sir John struck a significant keynote when he said: "The Commission will recommend no sweeping changes in the Indian form of Government. The Indian people...
...added: "Two months in India don't qualify any one to arrive at conclusions, but they have shown us the complexity and the multitude of Indian problems. Each province, in fact, has its own difficulties and their solution will not be found in a repetition of vague generalities. India is the real meeting ground of the East and West...
...18th Century, when Yankee traders were enterprising and sporting, men wagered guineas along New Bedford and Newburyport waterfronts about fulfillment of time-delivery contracts at Calcutta of clipper-ship cargoes. Last week dark-skinned, poly-tongued Manhattan Coffee Exchange brokers-Greek, Christian, Jew alike-bet furiously on West Indian weather. Could Munson Liner Southern Cross get her 50,000 bags of Rio coffee a-dock at Hoboken before the last trading hour of March? The 50,000 bags were bought and sold. If a hurricane delayed them the bags might be near but not at Hoboken, and sellers of them...
...north of Europe-is an intimate and elaborate chronicle. All the familiar details of life that precede and accompany the gaudiest adventures, like the supplies with which a captain fills the hold of his ship before a long voyage, are carefully inserted by Author Powys. He tells how an Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead as he was paddling across the silent river valley, back to shore. The sea, the polar bears, the casual, surly, craven sailors of Hudson...
Henry Ford, who has long possessed an Indian squaw made of wood, sought to buy a male wooden Indian to be her companion. He purchased for $100 from one Albinus Elchert, farmer, an old cigar store savage called variously "Seneca John," or "The Tiffin Tecumseh." This wooden Indian is a noted member of his vanishing race; he was made by Arnold Ruef, Tiffin, Ohio, woodcarver, a half century ago. In Cleveland, recently, when the onetime custodians of cigar stores were gathered together for comparison, he was observed to be the largest of them all and was awarded a prize...