Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a Most Holy Mahatma or Hindu Saint is caught red-handed staging a bonfire of British cloth for propaganda purposes, how stiffly should the Saint be fined...
Last week in Calcutta, where Saint Gandhi had sat in jail 22 days charged with holding one of his "propaganda bonfires," he was finally brought to trial. As the "Biggest Little Man in India" stepped spryly into Court everyone rose, even the Crown Prosecutor, in deference to the Prisoner-Saint...
...second day of the trial, Saint Gandhi was allowed to remain away from court. Absent, he was fined one rupee (36¢) which his lawyer refused to pay. As always happens when the Mahatma is fined?and invariably refuses to pay?an unidentified "friend" stepped briskly up and laid down the requisite rupee...
...bold! Be bold!" was a favorite Occidental maxim of the late, sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen (TIME, March 23, 1925), founder of China's present Nationalist Government. Nearly always the tail end of the maxim (". . . but not too bold!") was docked in quotation by dynamic, heroic Sun Yatsen. Last week it seemed that the penchant for daring of Saint Sun was cropping out strongly in his son, Mr. Sun Fo, who is Chinese Minister of Railways and Reconstruction. Without batting either of his eyes, Mr. Sun coolly asked legislative approval for a 50-year program of public works...
...borrow another $100,000,000 annually from the Great Powers, and "should" issue $50,000,000 of "Reconstruction Bonds" every twelvemonth. Thus, said Mr. Sun, China "could" raise the annual $250,000,000 requisite to carry out the following Sun Program: 1) Complete the $3,000,000 tomb of Saint Sun Yat-sen in Nanking, a project already well begun; 2) Rebuild Nanking as a "modern capital," with a "White Hall" for the President of China and "Six Civic Quarters"− governmental, educational, commercial, industrial, residential and celestial−the latter to be the "Purple Hills Quarter" containing the tomb...