Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provinces where they had won (TIME, April 12 et ante). Last week His Majesty's Government were glad they had replied to this political boycott by Gandhi's Indian National Congress by simply sitting tight. It was the original contention of Sir Samuel Hoare, chief maker of India's new Constitution when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante), that no matter how hard Indians at first kicked against its traces they would end by settling down, pulling in harness. Last week the Congress Party executive committee, chairmanned by Party President...
...Office is to be accepted," voted the Committee, thus permitting six huge provinces of India to have cabinets representing a majority of their Indian legislators, instead of a minority which has hitherto been the "impossible situation." But fiery Pandit Nehru, while he has piped down so far as acts are concerned, continued to pipe words. According to his Committee, office is to be "utilized for the purpose of working ... to further in every possible way the Congress policy of combatting the new Act" (Constitution...
...bullock cart, would have staggered into the Congress Committee and inspired his disciples with their oft-repeated "pangs of remorse for the suffering we cause the Mahatma by our unworthiness." Smugly the Times of London editorialized its "profound satisfaction," noted that the executive committee described Britain and India as "the exploiter and the exploited." Even this did not lessen Britain's "profound satisfaction," the Times explicitly declared, because it "seems to have been inserted largely to save the faces of Nehru and his immediate followers...
...last week with X-ray and documentary proofs that he had made female rats incapable of bearing children simply by whacking their spines out of shape. He performed his experiments at the Scottish Osteopathic Re-search Institute, an affiliate of the University of Edinburgh headed by the Viceroy of India, the medically-minded Marquess of Linlithgow...
...world's No. 1 aviatrix cracked up in Hawaii in her first try three months ago. With her Lockheed Electro, patched up, she took off in the opposite direction June 1 with Fred Noonan, onetime ace navigator for Pan American Airways,* flew leisurely to South America, Africa, India, Australia with a minimum of newspaper or public interest. July 1 they left Lae, New Guinea for the "worst section"-the 2,550 miles of open ocean to tiny Rowland Island, where no plane had ever been. With typical stunt flyer's negligence, Miss Earhart did not bother to reveal...