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Probably History will set down his term of office as Viceroy of India (1899-1905) as the greatest episode of his career. He created a new Northwest frontier province, introduced extensive schemes of irrigation, reformed the entire administrative functions of Government, worked assiduously to broaden the educational system of the country. Under Lloyd George, he was Foreign Secretary in the most momentous period of Europe's history; but, as Mr. George was largely his own Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon had to keep much in the background. Under Bonar Law and later in Mr. Baldwin's first administration, he was Foreign...
...Roosevelts-Kermit and Theordore Jr.-who had planned to make an incursion into Turkestan to hunt wild animals for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME, Mar. 16), suffered a set-back in their plans because the Viceroy of India objected that a large Swedish party had already gone through Hunza Pass and had taken nearly all of the available native carriers. Permission is to be sought to use another pass through the Himalayas to Turkestan and the Pamir region...
...dusky chapel and gloat, while you stare, at the mummy-like remains in black vestments.* They will tell you, old hatred burning beneath their derision, that this shrunken carcass was once the Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy of New Castile; who sailed back; slaughtered Incas for their gold at Cuzco and thought himself a very great Emperor indeed. "Ha!" say the monks, and look as if they would spit upon those miserable bones...
...conditions are much better at the present time and will be further improved by the Conservative Party coming into power. I expect that Sir George Lloyd [ex-Governor of Bombay] will be the next Viceroy when Lord Reading retires, which will be in April, 1925, if not before...
...Major Geoffrey Phipps-Hornby; like all the British players, a hard rider and an accurate shot. Two years ago, seriously ill with diabetes, he went to India to recuperate. Last year, he played on the military team that won the Viceroy's cup, thus winning consideration for the international side. His visit to the U. S. is a combined sporting trip and honeymoon. He married a week before sailing...