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...Shame upon you, Christians!" the mute nakedness of the Mahatma cries louder than words???for Englishmen know that they as individuals have not, and that he as an individual has, obeyed the command: "Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor." He built up as a young man one of the most lucrative legal practices in India, then devoted all his possessions except the last wad or two of rags to succoring the needy. During the Boer war he turned the other cheek to Great Britain by organizing Indian Red Cross units, served with such passive, non-violent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...course the British demands were not met in toto?as one would suppose from Chancellor Snowden's words???but only by about 82%. Moreover the concession won ($9,520,000 per annum) was relatively picayune, less than ¼% of the balancing figure of the British budget. These facts were used last week in a slashing attack on the Laborite Chancellor by Conservative Sir Josiah Stamp. One of London's most potent tycoons. Sir Josiah served with Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan in drafting the Young Plan which Mr. Snowden would not endorse at The Hague until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Snowden Tattles | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...would not warm to such easy, hospitable words???although indeed Premier Baldwin's political friends in England must have shuddered to read his unconsidered and spontaneous indiscretion: "Sometimes I feel that we can never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Empire Tour | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...five hours at his experimental plant, told me he had made up his mind to discontinue absolutely and permanently in any publication owned by him all articles such as those that had given offense to Jews. He added that if his orders were violated he would?I quote his words???'shut the thing down completely and throw out the machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Apology to Jews | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Hoover would succeed him. Nettled by insistent insinuations, the President answered sharply that Mr. Kellogg was not resigning and that, in any case, Mr. Hoover would not succeed him. Pining for a sensation, the correspondents rushed off and filled the press for days with one of their favorite words??? "slap." The President, they reiterated, had "slapped at" Secretary of Commerce Hoover. The President at first ignored this press palaver but, when it did not abate, reproved the correspondents by saying he considered Mr. Hoover capable of fitting any portfolio a President has to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mania | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

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