Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...edited? I refer to two items appearing on your business page, TIME, April 18, in which you state that William C. Durant "spent $21,000 to advertise in 48 newspapers in 29 states" that Sir Charles Higham has come to the United States to "spend 5200,000 on advertising India tea in U. S. newspapers...
...Higham landed at Manhattan last week. His arrival from England had been well foretold. "Advertising Ambassador from Great Britain to the United States" was the epithet cabled ahead of him, and in footnote to the appellation was the information that he was voyaging to spend $200,000 on advertising India tea in U. S. newspapers...
...with some amusement that the world saw Ramsey MacDonald; first Labour Prime Minister, pay his respect to the King of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and Emperor of India as dutifully as ever did Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Wellington, or Lord North. It probably made Soviet ministers throw bombs, clench their teeth, bristle their whiskers and evince other characteristically Russian signs of displeasure. It reassured conservative England; at least radical viewpoints did not interfere with good taste...
While the Earl of Birkenhead was speaking, an Indian riot was actually in progress between Moslems and Hindus at Larkana, Upper India. Some 47 persons were injured in a bellicose dispute arising around an old Hindu woman and her three children alleged to have been mistreated by a Moslem...
From the League of Nations anti-slavery office it was announced during the week that H. H. Beglar Begi Mir bir Mahmud Khan, Wali of Kalat, cooperating with the Government of India, has abolished slavery in the Kalat district of Baluchistan, remote Indian province. Formerly male and female slaves have been so absolutely the property of their owners in Kalat that two mated slaves were sometimes refused even sustenance by their master, forced to shift for themselves, and then any children which they might manage to bring up were finally seized by the original master as they reached...