Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Robertson Dunlap, 80, retired founder of trade and scientific magazines (India Rubber World, Hardware, Engineering Magazine, Industrial Management, Industry Illustrated); in New York City...
Secretary of State for India-Marquess of Zetland...
After receiving Mr. Smith, Pius XI gave a general audience for some 400 newly weds and pilgrims from the U. S., India, France, Germany, Canada and Spain. He honored Mr. Smith by seating him in front of the Papal throne and intoning to the throng: "We have with us today a beautiful and worthy representative of America in the person of Mr. Smith, who does honor to all he represents in America and above all to his name and profession as a son of the Catholic Church. ... A man about whom there has been much discussion in important...
...bitter contest between two potent oldsters General Evangeline Booth, 71, and Commissioner Henry W. Mapp; 67-to control the world-wide Salvation Army flared up again last week for perhaps the last time. Tall, ruddy Henry Mapp came within the orbit of the Booth dynasty in India 50 years ago, when he joined the Army under Commissioner Edward Booth-Tucker, son-in-law of Founder William Booth. Mapp moved upward alone, to become the Army's Chief-of-Staff, administrator of some 26,000 officers and candidate for its Generalship when General Edward John Higgins made ready to retire...
...were legitimate, he had kept their French "passes" (commissions); but these vital papers had been taken from him and he could not produce them in court. Their evidence would not have affected the verdict, thinks Author Wilkins. The British Admiralty was determined to make an example of him. Reason: India's Great Mogul, tired of English pirates, had threatened to drive out the East India Co. from his domain unless some scapegoats were hanged. For some unexplained reason, Kidd did not try to implicate his backers, who for their part sacrificed him without a qualm. So Kidd...