Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues (TIME, Aug. 31), was not made completely clear. St. Gandhi had accused the British of violating the Delhi pact, of coercing natives to pay taxes by such extreme measures as locking them up in rooms filled with angry hornets. He said he would not leave India until Viceroy Willingdon promised that during his absence there would be no evictions, no forced tax collection. Because without his attendance there seemed little chance of the conference accomplishing its aims, from several quarters gentle pressure began to be directed toward St. Gandhi. The S. S. Mooltan, bearing the Indian delegates, drew nearer...
Married, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 70, Marquess of Reading, onetime Viceroy of India; and Stella Charnaud, 37, his secretary; in London. In 1918 Lord Reading was special ambassador to the U. S. His first wife died...
With all the physical prestige of a man six and a half feet tall, with all the au- thority of a peer who has just relinquished the great office of Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin told the leaders of the British Conservative Party in London last week that "the prestige of the white man in India has been lost and probably cannot be recovered...
...Emir was informed that his State, the only one unconfiscated in the great province of Sind, was then & there confiscated by the Government of Bombay under orders from Viscount Willingdon, new Viceroy of India...
Chief foreign "accepted" Mason present was Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell, Lord Ampthill, oldtime British oarsman and onetime (1904) pro tem. Viceroy of India. He brought the good wishes of the Duke of Connaught. Grand Master of English Masons, to the New York Grand Lodge. At a dinner following the meeting, he exclaimed: "You have a saying here: 'Hats off to the past and coats off to the future.' And to that I say: 'So ought...