Word: linford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...associate editors are Paul Evans, executive editor of the Mitchell Daily Republic in South Dakota where he covers a lot of territory; and Ernest Linford who was raised on a Wyoming ranch and is editor of the Laramie Republican Boomerang. Bill Nye founded this paper and named it for his pet mule. Linford left the mule home but brought...
Last month India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer declared invalid the emergency statute under which Mohandas K. Gandhi and 8,000 lesser All-India Congress leaders had been detained since last August. The Raj was unruffled. Technically the Viceroy accepted the judgment, but he refused to release edition of the newspaper Critica was suppressed for carrying an attack on Castillo and an appeal for speed in realizing hemisphere cooperation...
From his bench in New Delhi last week India's Chief Justice Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer handed down a bombshell decision: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and 8,000 other Congress party leaders were being illegally detained by the Viceroy's Government. Reason: Rule No. 26, of the Defence of India Act, under which the Congress leaders were arrested and have been held without trial since last August, was invalid because "it went beyond the powers which the Legislature thought fit to confer on the Central Government...