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...Foolish Man!" The Committee of the All-India National Congress, which speaks for most of India, was meeting at the foot of Bombay's Malabar Hill. Hundreds of workers had toiled day & night for a fortnight to erect a pandal (tent) big enough to seat the 300 delegates and 25,000 visitors. Gandhi was absent with a high fever, but his deputy, Jawaharlal Nehru, was conspicuously present. Embittered Moslem League supporters signalized Nehru's arrival by waving black flags, which Congress supporters promptly tore to tatters...
...selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard to Government House at Malabar Point...
...Bound together in all matters of faith and by mutual recognition of the Pope as Christ's Vicar on Earth, they are: Ambrosian (Milan), Mozarabic (Spain), Chaldean, Malabar, Coptic, Abyssinian, Pure Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Pure Greek, Italo-Greek, Georgian, Melkite, Bulgarian, Serbian, Rumanian, Russian, Ruthenian...
...harbor, and watched the sailors leaving their ships. He thought of a time when this town sent out the proudest ships in the world, with famous captains, now forgotten. They cleared Cape Horn in midwinter, and struck for whales in the Sea of Japan and on the Malabar Coast. That was a century back. Now they cast their nets in the west Atlantic, and when Autumn comes they glide back to port...
...Gale's Class-A sloop, Malabar X: the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton, Bermuda: in 3 days 3 hr. 42 min. 29 sec., with a time allowance of, 5 hr. 53 min. 41 sec. Clarence Kozlay of West Orange, N. J. was drowned when the largest boat in the race, James H. Ottley's schooner Adriana, caught fire and sank 80 miles off Montauk. Four days after the race's end, the U. S. Coast Guard began hunting for the missing...