Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neville Chamberlain, acting through the Viceregal Government at New Delhi and the British provincial governors in India, has been quietly active against Saint Gandhi & Co. for several months. On April 1, 1937 the provinces of British India came under the new Indian Constitution, which was chiefly the work of Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, June 29, 1936). It had been planned that on April 1, 1938 the Indian states which are still ruled by native princes should enter, under the Constitution, into an All-India Federation, and next winter George VI was to have been crowned Emperor of this Federation...
...princes, although they have been under the heaviest pressure from New Delhi to enter the Federation, had last week signed on the dotted line. Last December, speaking for His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, "Richest Man in the World," and ruler of India's most important state, Sir Akbar Hydari said of Federation: "So far from being anywhere near finality, we have not yet reached the state of negotiations." A few weeks ago, after personal aides of King George and experts of the India Office had journeyed out to the Empire, judged the temper of the Indian people...
...forced to travel third class, refuse social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor of Bengal. The tempest of excitement this raised among Congressmen, only too eager to get on eating and dickering terms with their British masters, was stilled by Saint Gandhi in his own way. He announced that he no longer pays his Congress dues, is no longer a Congressman...
...week under the British Raj. Dispatches announced that the resigned native cabinet of Bihar, after a little further haggling with their British governor, were also expected to withdraw their resignations. Thus His Majesty's Government, whose game is quietly to keep pressing mercurial Indians into the mold of Sir Samuel Hoare's Constitution, appeared to have gained rather than lost ground...
Shadow and Substance. Sir Cedric Hardwicke in a first-rate Irish religious play, full of wit and feeling (TIME...