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...began to seek light. I found it when I met Remain Holland, the great French philosopher. He advised me if I wanted to do the utmost good in the world to join Mr. Gandhi. ... I went to Switzerland and for a year lived in seclusion with the poorest Swiss peasants. I studied spinning and weaving, I familiarized myself with Hindustani. I read all Mahatma Gandhi's works. . . . Then I came to India, landing at Bombay where many years previously I had been a social butterfly...
Deadlock, for the time being, seemed to be the significance of the election in Prussia. In Hamburg, Anhalt and Württemberg the Brownshirts won similar pluralities, produced similar deadlocks. In Bavaria, second largest German State, the Fascists last week made their poorest showing, were not able to nose out of first place the locally potent Bavarian People's Party...
...situation and a similar feeling. The material and intellectual advantages which a locality derive from the presence of a great university are not sufficient, in times of economic stress, to compensate for the loss of revenue from the tax exemptions of wealthy institutions. The pressure of taxation on the poorest citizens is increased by such exemptions, and their demand for relief is as legitimate, as it is inevitable. Response to it is a moral, if not a legal, obligation...
...Last year the Post's lineage loss from 1929 was 25%. For the first ten months of this year compared to the same period of 1930 its loss was 22%, poorest showing of all Manhattan papers...
...opening game of the professional hockey season, against the world champion Montreal Canadiens, 4 to 1; at Montreal. Philadelphia and Ottawa have no teams in the National Hockey League this year. Nonetheless, Hockey League directors last month decided to retain a system whereby this season all but the two poorest teams in the league qualify for the Stanley Cup play-off next March. A new rule this year: A penalty face-off will be ordered if any player other than the goalie falls on the puck within ten feet of his own goal...