Word: mehta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month, austere, frugal Premier Jivraj Mehta (friend and personal physician to the late Mohandas Gandhi) wrote his sovereign a letter. "Instead of spending time and money on rearing horses and running races . . . Your Highness [should] have looked after the proper administration of the state ... I need not say more. It is only the blind that ignores the signs and portents." The Maharaja went to the U.S. to buy some more horses. Last week, the Baroda legislature let go. "His frequent and prolonged absence from the state resulting in complete neglect of his duties," said a majority resolution...
...week's singles championship, were some 60 players-about 25 of them with foreign accents. England had sent Tony Mottram and Derrick Barton. France's Robert Abdesselam, Czechoslovakia's outstanding southpaw Jaroslav Drobny were there, along with India's entire Davis Cup team (Misra, Mohan & Mehta) and Sweden's and Belgium's best...
...historic meeting with Gandhi on Malabar Hill in 1944 ended in an impasse. Even Gandhi's healer, Dinshaw Mehta, who massaged Jinnah for two hours daily during the meetings, could not rub out the wrinkles of obstinacy that made the skinny Moslem uncompromisingly demand Pakistan, made the skinny Hindu as uncompromisingly demand a unified India, with the Pakistan issue postponed until after independence...
India. Sir Chunilal B. Mehta hoped that U.S. businessmen would not support a U.S. international policy that subsidizes exports of U.S. surplus cotton while the U.S. exhorts other nations to abolish similar artificial stimulants to their foreign trade (see Government...
...Mehta's statement was not entirely free of self-interest. Wrote New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews from Calcutta recently: "Big Indian firms like the Birla Brothers of Bombay finance the All-India Congress. . . . Indian rivals [of British businessmen] want to get their businesses away from them, and in that struggle much is involved, political as well as financial...