Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Col. H. H. Sir Hari Singh, K. C. I. E., K. C. V. O., Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir, once notorious as "Mr. A.," the victim of a "badger game" staged by international crooks (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924); at Srinagar, India. Despatches, mutilated in transmission, did not state the name or rank of the bride...
Because Persia lies strategically at the side door of India and at the back door of Russia,* a struggle to dominate the Government of Persia was waged between British and Russian agents, up to the period of the World War, on a basis of flagrant bribery and corruption. Amid the idealistic post-War period Persia barely escaped falling to the British Empire as a "mandate." Then the power of Soviet Russia gathered might, and the old Anglo-Russian struggle began again at Teheran. Finally the Government of Persia turned (or was swayed by British pressure) toward...
...swart Britishers debarked from the S. S. Minnetonka from London, were propelled by motor to the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N. Y. They had come, via London, from India, where they are officers in the British Army. It was to them that Great Britain's polo organization, Hurlingham, had assigned the task of winning the Westchester cup, emblematic of international championship. Since 1921 it has rested...
...team of four is not yet decided. Their form on the fast U. S. fields will determine the matter. One other, however, will probably swing a British mallet when the team takes the field. He is Capt. C. T. I. Roark, an Irishman, connected with the British Army in India merely by reason of his membership in the reserve corps. Captain Atkinson and Manager Tomkinson must decide before September, when the matches are scheduled, whether the team works better as a unit when composed of four men who have played through a whole year together, or when aided...
...Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Spencer Churchill, Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Air Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare, War Secretary Rt. Hon. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans...