Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, grave woman with a gentle voice and a delicate, jet-black mustache, was the daughter of Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade; that she gave up a position in British society for which she does not seem particularly suited to seek spiritual peace caring for the Mahatma. Until last week she never told her own story...
...French philosopher. He advised me if I wanted to do the utmost good in the world to join Mr. Gandhi. ... I went to Switzerland and for a year lived in seclusion with the poorest Swiss peasants. I studied spinning and weaving, I familiarized myself with Hindustani. I read all Mahatma Gandhi's works. . . . Then I came to India, landing at Bombay where many years previously I had been a social butterfly...
...Mahatma Gandhi I felt I ... had met my parent. ... It was like finding something that I had lost. . . . The political side of Gandhi is the least part of him. As a moral teacher and reformer the world has not known his equal since Buddha and Christ. He made no attempt to convert me from Christianity. I am not an orthodox Hindu. The Mahatma did not baptize me or immerse me in the holy Ganges, as has been reported. Gandhi hates conversion and believes that all religions are good...
...Hitler, the Japanese at Shanghai. Its grandiose title is meaningless and misleading. The picture is improved by its lack of a theme; the pleasure of watching it is analogous to that of reading the headlines of old newspapers. Good shots: Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. looking out of his window; Mahatma Gandhi with one finger on his nose; Mrs. Charles H. Sabin denouncing Prohibition; Manhattan police riding their horses into a crowd of Communists; an old scared Chinaman stooping to retrieve his bundle from a Shanghai gutter; Congressman La Guardia delivering an oration on a bunch of grapes...
...India's revered Pandit Mohan Malavija, was arrested as he reached New Delhi along with 369 delegates to the Congress. These arrests (in the opinion of British officials at the Vice-regal Capital) placed under lock & key in various parts of India some 50,000 followers of the Mahatma "including all who are nationally known...