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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Viceroy's next act was 100% kingly. He ordered the Government of Bombay to arrest Mr. Gandhi in the dead of night and lodge him before dawn in Yerovda Jail near Poona, where the Mahatma had twice before been imprisoned (1926, 1930). At 3 a. m. Police Commissioner Wilson, Inspector Hirst and two strapping Indian policemen climbed the tenement stairs, approached the tent with-in which Mr. Gandhi was sleeping, bearing a warrant arresting the Mahatma "for good and sufficient reasons." Under a century-old ordinance enacted in the reign of King George IV. 50 years before Britain became...
...Twice a year, at New Year's and on his birthday, King George is graciously pleased to honor his subjects with medals, ribands and titles. Last week half a million Britons hastily unfolded their morning papers to see who got what...
...with length, breadth and thickness, and that, in this sense, I have obviously three dimensions. Alas! I have sought to point out to him that the impression which he gets of me is obtained through a two-dimensional image on the retinas of his eyes; that he sees me twice over, once in each eye; that he sees me upside down, and that what the left eye sees the righthand side of his brain interprets...
...denunciation of what both houses of Mexico's Congress had unanimously voted. Protestant denominations did not complain. The largest has only 13 churches in all Mexico. In the State of Vera Cruz the legal limit already enforced on priests and churches is one per 100,000 population- twice as strict as that voted by the Federal Congress. Last week the Legislature of the State of Morelos passed a bill to tax each cleric 300 pesos ($120) per annum. In the State of Coahuila cinemas with religious themes were banned. Debate in the Federal Congress for a fortnight past...
...pass, Flowers to Galloway, scored a touchdown for Tech, made "the score Tech 6, California 7. A safety for Tech would have won by the score of the 1928 game, but this time no one ran the wrong way. Irritated into action, the California offense swung down the field twice in the last quarter. Schaldach scored one of the touchdowns, Gill the other. Final score: California 19, Georgia Tech 6. At their annual meeting in Manhattan last week, the Eastern Association of College Football Officials made two suggestions for safer football which will be carefully weighed when the Rules Committee...