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...onetime Fisticuffer James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett (who won the world's heavyweight championship from John L. Sullivan 39 years ago this week), of an intestinal ailment, in Manhattan; Viceroy Lord Willingdon of India, of dysentery, at Simla; bankrupt Theatrical Producer Arthur Hammerstein, of a ruptured bladder, in Manhattan; Cinemactress Constance Bennett, with adhesions after her appendectomy of last year, in Manhattan; famed Scientist Sir David Bruce (discoverer of the cause of Malta fever, namesake of the bacteria group "Brucella"), in London; Queen Marie of Rumania, of a female complaint due to her age (55), at Bucharest...
...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...