Word: pur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received with curious apathy. Evidently carnivorous Church of Englanders still view the menaces of vegetarian Hindus with the customary contempt. The Daily Herald, party organ of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, recalled that during 1929 the Indian Nationalists demanded "dominion status," and complacently alluded to the 1930 demand for Pur an Swaraj (Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose of the Indian Nationalist Association of America talked boldly of arming a million Indians for revolution but had no theory as to how a million rifles could be smuggled into India past alert...
...AIDA, PUR TI RIVEGGO and LATRA FORESTI VERGINI (Victor, $2.50)-For those limited to a single record, this version of the Nile duet has the advantage of better singing by Famed Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg and Famed Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi...