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...Memorial Fund for King George V, $25.000 for Hyderabad broadcasting equipment, $12,000 to victims of the Quetta earthquake and an additional $9,000 to the academy named after Indian Poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Because his exalted Highness the Nizam is a Mohammedan (a descendant of the last Mogul Viceroy), while about 90% of his 15,000,000 subjects are Hindus, it was discreet in 1902 to appoint a Hindu Prime Minister, the Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad Bahadur who was still nourishing last week. Living nowadays in semiretirement, Hindu Sir Kishen leaves the business of running Hyderabad largely to Mohammedan...
...Mohammedan theory that "all are equal before Allah in prayer," the World's Richest Man prostrated himself with his subjects at the Great Mosque and everyone prayed. Poems were recited and the venerable Hindu Premier read an address hailing his Mohammedan Monarch as "today the sole relic of Mogul greatness in India...
rolled into Moscow last week. Interior decorators from Manhattan had just finished doing over the Spasso palace, (built in Tsarist times by a Russian mercantile mogul), to suit Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies. In swept the Davieses' corps of six servants from Manhattan, headed by an authoritative butler who engaged seven Russian servants...
...Mogul is a remarkable young man who was born 24 years ago in London, but was educated in Baltimore. He clams that his powers of telepathy were discovered when he was a very young child, going to grade school. In class, he would anticipate the teacher's question, raise his hand, and read the answer right out of the teacher's mind. Later on in life, Baltimore City College, he would read the mind of the Phi Beta Kappa students during the exams and thereby obtain a high grade without any studying...
Twenty-five dollars is Mogul's standard fee for a private reading, and many people consult him before taking an important step, among them Governor Curley, who has jut taken his cruise to Bermuda on Mogul's advice. Several Harvard students have taken advantage of the free readings at Keith's to find out some right answers...