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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lingerie was none other than that pious midget the Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He had amplified his customary loin cloth with a scarf thrown over his shoulders, and a cheap watch dangled from his waist. Perspiring porters rushed ashore with St. Gandhi's clattering collection of stew pans, his mattress, his cans of goat's milk and his suitcase. But there was no pourboires from the Mahatma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Landing Gandhi | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Lyons someone presented him with a goat, which was promptly placed in the baggage car. The special train reached Paris at 6 a. m. Even at that hour at least 500 people were waiting outside a police cordon for a sight of the Saint. The Mahatma emerged briefly and remarked that Paris looked much the same as it had when first he saw it 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Landing Gandhi | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...arrived in high spirits, flashing his pink gums at the welcoming throngs. He was taken to Kingsley Hall Settlement House, whose fluttering proprietress, a Miss Muriel Lester, had been eagerly awaiting him for weeks (TIME, July 13). Among the volunteer workers of the Settlement House eager to skim the Mahatma's goat's milk were the Misses Frances Perry of Topeka, Kan., Mildred Osterhaut of Vancouver, B. C. and Camille Solomon of No. 552 West 150th Street, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Landing Gandhi | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

After his speech the Mahatma admitted that he had just received a large white petticoat from an infuriated Briton with a demand that he "cover his nudity with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Landing Gandhi | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...weather became exceptionally cold would he modify his famed loincloth in Britain. Then he would wear a woolen loincloth, reaching his ankles, and a white cotton jacket, specially woven for him by big-toed Raymond Duncan, esthete brother of the late great Isadora. ¶ On Sunday the Mahatma attended Christian service in the Rajputana's main saloon. Because it is his favorite hymn his thin reedy voice was heard piping "Lead Kindly Light" amid the enshrouding boom of British baritones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Kindly Light | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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