Word: poona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition we are sending as many copies of TIME as we can squeeze aboard the planes for our troops in Iceland, Australia, Africa and India. The Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru will get TIME next week in his prison at Poona -and TIME goes by air to Madame Chiang Kai-shek all the way across the world in Chungking...
...that resistance was virtually under control. Immediately new riots broke out in Madras, where four men were killed trying to attack a railway station. Ahmadabad mills closed. A Karaikkudi mob tried to free an Indian being jailed. Calcutta brooded restlessly, heard threats of work stoppages at vital war plants. Poona, Nagpur, Cawnpore, Wardha reported fresh riots. An airplane dropped tear gas on a crowd of Bombay mill workers. The New Delhi Town Hall was burned...
Whether or not these assertions were true, Gandhi could not publicly affirm or deny: he was locked up in a luxurious jail, the Aga Khan's million-rupee "bungalow" at Poona. But the British threatened use of the whip on rioters, execution of anyone sabotaging trains or communications...
Died. Mahadev Hiralal Desai, 48, Mohandas K. Gandhi's private secretary, Indian Nationalist editor; of a heart attack; in British custody at Poona. A Brahman, he joined Gandhi when he was 27, shortly after his graduation from Bombay University. He became Gandhi's close personal adviser and "Boswell," edited the Gandhi weekly, Harijan...
...Bhagavad-Gita (sacred Hindu poem), the Koran and an Urdu primer under his arm, a garland of flowers around his wizened neck, he was taken in the commissioner's car to Victoria station. "Nice old fellow, that Gandhi," the commissioner said. The train chuffed on to Poona. There the Mahatma was imprisoned in the rambling stone "bungalow" of the rich Aga Khan...