Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King George opened the First Conference with elegant pomp in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Mahatma Gandhi was not present. To everyone's amazement it was India's bejeweled Princes and Maharajas who upset the show by upsetting Great Britain's major premise, namely that the Indian rulers would be unwilling to merge their states into an Indian Federation. One after another Their Highnesses arose in dazzling splendor to say that they were willing...
...prize" (she did not), then besought Waterman's London branch to stem the flood of letters. Most signatures of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (post-convention), Charles Spence Chaplin, Anton Joseph Cermak were disqualified as rubber-stamps. Revealed as refusers-to-sign were: George V, Paul von Hindenburg, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin, John Davison Rockfeller Sr., Al Capone. Most reluctant (one each) were: Henry Ford, Greta Garbo, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Tom Mooney, Edward of Wales, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, "One-Eye" Connelly, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Most obliging: Calvin Coolidge, Rudy Vall...
Birthdays. Paul von Hindenburg. 85; Richard B. Harrison (God in The Green Pastures), 68; Oscar (Waldorf) Tschirky, 66; Mahatma Gandhi, 63; King Christian of Denmark, 62; Charles ("Gabby'') Street...
What agreement was reached in final frantic haste, His Majesty's Government and censors, left unclear last week, stressing instead the great fact that the agreement had satisfied Mahatma Gandhi. It was said that to the agreement proper His Majesty's Government appended "certain reservations"?and the Kingdom of Egypt is regulated from London by means of "reservations" inserted when His Majesty's Government "recognized it as an independent sovereign State" in 1922. Observers could assume no more than that Mr. Gandhi had received convincing assurances that the caste barriers (which he has fought so long to break down...
...democracy, even in the sense that Canada is democratic and mistress of herself under the Crown. When Indians vote under a new Constitution which is being slowly evolved, their elected representatives will still be subordinate to the London Parliament?unless Mother India wins another and far greater victory than Mahatma Gandhi won last week...