Word: washed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio broadcast Gandhi's favorites: extracts from the Gita, the Upanishads and the Koran; the Lord's Prayer; the Christian hymn, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Then, after midnight, Gandhi's youngest son Devadas (who insisted that Gandhi be cremated, as he had wished) helped wash the body. He and Gandhi's secretary Pyarelal then wrapped the body in pure white khadi. They put a yellow paste of sandalwood and water on his face...
...Shelton, Wash...
...concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have had better taste than to wash dirty linen in public. Let Harvard pay decent wages, let the too-easily-excited alumni calm down, and let's all forget about the affair. By taking this stand, was the CRIMSON playing a constructive role? I subsequently came to the conclusion that it definitely was not, I think...
Ceiling Reached. In Everett, Wash., wage negotiations between local contractors and Local 339 of the painters' union (A.F.L.) took an unexpected turn. The painters, who had begun by asking a 14½? an hour increase, ended by agreeing to a 2½? an hour cut. The painters reasoned that business, which had fallen off, might pick up again if painting costs went down...
...With Wallace . . ." Treatment of missionaries and mission property by the Reds seemed to depend on the whims or decisions of individual officers. In the city of Tsaoyang, mild-mannered young Missionary .Philip Werdal, of Bellingham, Wash., underwent repeated interrogation from 27-year-old Communist Colonel Wong, graduate of Nanking University, an American-supported mission school. Wong looked at Werdal's soft hands, then at his own calloused ones. He said he was a Communist because he wanted, some day, to have soft hands...