Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reading, Rothermere & Beaverbrook. A Jew who became Lord Chief Justice of England, then Viceroy of India, and finally Marquess of Reading is famed Rufus Daniel Isaacs. Last week he in- troduced David Lloyd George, fiery leader of the Liberal Party, to a campaign audience of 10,000 which jammed famed Albert Hall. A system of land wires (not radio) would carry the bandy little Welsh-man's speech to 14 other voter rallies throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In stage boxes on opposite sides of the proscenium sat, dramatically, the great lords of the British press, Viscount Roth- ermere...
...little-known and rarely-tested portion of the world's culture will form the subject of an illustrated lecture on "Indian Architecture and Sculpture," by Dr. J. H. Cousins of Madras, India. The talk will be held on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Hall of the Fogg Art Museum, and will be open to the public...
Perhaps the most significant of 22 routine knighthoods was the bestowal upon the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir of the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India. Seldom has the broad-mindedness of British royalty in matters of state been better exemplified. All England knows that in one of the most unsavory trials of modern times (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) this potentate, then heir apparent, was proven to have been surprised in Paris and in guilty company with the wife of an Englishman who proceeded to extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed...
...India the intellectual classes were egoists and Buddha could not altogether enlighten them. Still he did not wish entirely to withhold his teachings. So he taught them the Hinayana (Little Vehicle) which was best suited to their intellectual capacities...
...Britishers in 95 English and Scotch communities. Shrewd, diplomatic, the U. S. operators secured the Earl of Birkenhead as the head of their new British interests. Since the Earl of Birkenhead was recently (1919-22) Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and Secretary of State for India, his appointment was calculated to assuage British ill-feeling against U. S. economic invasion...