Word: poona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these ominous 24 hours were not marked by any violent atrocity, residents in the British Isles breathed easier, but Britons on the spot continued acutely anxious as tens of thousands of natives in small white "Gandhi caps" paraded through Bombay, thousands through such cities as Calcutta and Madras. At Poona paraders carried a likeness of George V festooned with old shoes. From the Afghan frontier came news that shrewd Afghan traders were refusing Indian coins stamped with the Emperor's head, saying "George's head is like Amanullah's* now-no good...
...loss in "mysterious circumstances" concealed by censorship; 3) at the summer palace of Viceroy Baron Irwin at Simla, India, His Excellency showed no sign of weakening in his policy, maintained a firm tone and began to study the first section of the Simon report on India; 4) natives at Poona, a few days after the parade, were preparing further to "revolt" by sending stock to the forests to feed, thus breaking the grazing tax; 5) at Manhattan, the Bishop of Bombay (Methodist Episcopal) warned thus: "Americans seem to have an idea that all India is out for independence. . . . The Independent...
...special apartments at the Poona jail, the special herd purchased to provide the Saint with goat's milk, the special chef hired to pamper the prisoner's taste (TIME, May 12), not even all these luxuries sufficed. Poona was deemed too warm. By means so secret that no detail leaked out, the prisoner was spirited to Purandhar Military Sanitarium at the salubrious altitude of 4,500 ft. There every day, whether he liked it or not, St. Gandhi received a tender but thorough physical examination by a corps of British physicians. As during the illness of George...
...prisoner was ushered into a handsome limousine with rich, closely drawn curtains, the type of car in which the wife of an Indian Maharajah is taken for a ride. With an Englishman disguised as an Indian chauffeur at the wheel, the car sped to Yeroda jail in Poona. There officials did all in their power to make St. Gandhi comfortable, showed reporters a dozen woolly animals of purest strain, purchased by His Majesty's Government to supply the prisoner with his favorite beverage: goat's milk...
Meanwhile in Poona, southeast of Bombay, 100 volunteers planned to emulate Saint Gandhi, make a 100-mile march-to-the-sea. In Calcutta, Mayor J. M. Sen Gupta, garlanded, his forehead daubed with vermilion in, honor of a Hindu festival, embarked for Rangoon to answer British charges that he had encouraged Civil Disobedience...