Word: parsis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bombay's white community, where Britons regularly go for their "sundowners," the neat, half-size whiskey and soda known as a chotapeg. But for Bombay Presidency's 18,192,500 natives it meant the end of the liquor trade, put some 8,000 members of the wealthy Parsi community out of work, closed 8,500 bars and liquor shops...
First shot in New Jersey's gubernatorial campaign was immediately fired not by Democrat Moore nor Republican Clee but by an Independent, a Parsi named Dinshah Pestanji Framji Ghadiali, whose first name means "King of Duty." Born in Bombay 63 years ago, King of Duty Ghadiali has been, according to his own account, a wireless experimenter at Hillsdale, N. J., a medical student, export manager of a smelting company at Union, N. J., an assistant professor of mathematics in Bombay, manager of Bombay's first cinemansion, a commander in the New York Police Air Service, a mechanical engineer...
Died. Shapurji Saklatvala, 61, son of a rich Bombay Parsi merchant, second Communist to sit in the British House of Commons; of a heart attack; in London...
...Delhi. At the village of Sayadla in the Surat district, Mrs. Kasturbai Gandhi was arrested with Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Vallabhai Patel, onetime President of the All-India National Congress, who is now jailed with St. Gandhi, and a third woman, who said she belonged to a wealthy Parsi family. All three were charged with inciting India's women to non-violent revolt. Mrs. Gandhi, who had pleaded to be taken with her husband at his arrest, submitted quietly, smiled serenely at the officers. At Cawnpore, scene of the Indian Mutiny Massacre of 1857, cavalry were called...