Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples, sped by specal train to Rome, began an extensive tour of the Occident...
...onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling's India...
...Eric Geddes, less the scholar-diplomat, more the born executive, came young to the U. S. from England and forgot social caste while he worked for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Soon he went out to build bridges, tracks and soaring trestles in India. Returning, he won further experience with the British North-Eastern Railway...
...Taffari is of a turn of mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...
...little circumstance, began the rate war. They are respectively the sons of the late President Roosevelt and President Philip Albright Small Franklin of the International Mercantile Marine; and respectively they are the president and vice president of the Roosevelt Line, which operates U. S. Shipping Board vessels between India and U. S. ports on the North Atlantic...