Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declaration made the comparatively unified and politically entrenched Congress hot as chutney. Mahatma Gandhi, who had lately been Britain's friend, observed bitterly that "the old policy to divide and rule is to continue." The Congress's left wingers, whom Gandhi had purged for the sake of compromise with the Viceroy, vociferously demanded a civil-disobedience campaign...
...reached Rotterdam that evening, and after spending the night at The Hague and one on board the Dutch steamer Batavier V, left Rotterdam in the early hours of Thursday morning, the sixth of September. We arrived at Gravesend about six p. m. that evening...
...Beach went to International News Service and found the Litticks had signed for that too. Said I. N. S.: "We prefer to deal with well-established papers." They had given the Litticks an exclusive contract, and since the Littick papers already held an Associated Press franchise, the News was left without any major wire service...
...Manhattan's vast Metropolitan Museum for an indefinite visit will go the five classical Greek statues, one ascribed to Praxiteles, which have been a star turn at the World of Tomorrow. Too precious to run the risk of torpedoes is the first group of originals that has left Greece since Lord Elgin carried off the treasures of the Acropolis to London's British Museum more than a century ago. Premiums on the five statues' insured value of $2,000,000 presumably will be paid by the Metropolitan...
...people attend meetings which Jews do well to avoid. At the meetings, held by groups with names like "Christian Front" and "Christian Mobilizers," the streets of upper Manhattan and The Bronx resound with cries of "Buy Christian," "Down with the Jews," "Wait till Hitler comes over here." Only the left-wing press has paid much attention to these gatherings, although in recent months they have resulted in more than 250 arrests and some 85 actual and suspended sentences. (Example last week: Patrick Kiernan, 38, reliefer; three months in the workhouse for an anti-Semitic speech-"disorderly conduct" on a Bronx...