Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Gandhites are beaten every day, bored white correspondents have almost ceased to report their sufferings, but the British Labor Party still keeps in touch with goings on in India. Released last week was a report from Madras by Laborite Peter Freeman, former M. P. Reported...
...clock in the afternoon, when I saw on the other side of the road about a dozen Indians, walking quietly along, one of their number carrying a flag. On inquiry I was informed that they were members of the [Gandhite Indian National] Congress. Such action is illegal in India...
...forever hopping & skipping about its sprawling domain on record-breaking distance flights. With small, slow, economical planes, the pilots achieve time records by steady plugging, frequent halts for refueling. Chief factors are the nerve and endurance of the flyer. Longest, toughest, favorite course is that from England via India to Australia. So long and so tough is it that Charles William Anderson Scott, after setting a new record last year, declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds!" But last week Lieut. Scott recovered his record (snatched by Charles A. Butler last November), swept into...
...breaks the Gandhite movement, restores India to submission and thus saves the most valuable adjunct of Empire stern Lord Willingdon may even be rewarded with a dukedom.* perhaps "Duke of Gandhiland...
...Bombay, Shaukat Ali, 60, 300 lb., a leader of India's Noncooperative Movement, planned secretly to marry a Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, 25-year-old divorced wife of an Irish officer. His son, Zahid Ahmed learned of the plan, rushed to the officiating priest, brandished a knife, threatened to hack off the priest's beard (greatest possible indignity to a Moslem ) if the ceremony was performed. The trembling priest stopped the marriage. That afternoon determined Shaukat Ali got a braver priest, an armed guard, his bride...