Word: bombay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Bombay Independent Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, leader of India's untouchables : "What else could the Viceroy have done under the circumstances...
...city of Bombay one night last week the big hotel restaurants were virtually empty because most of the waiters were drunk. In the slum section 20,000 women and 50,000 textile workers paraded to celebrate the downfall of liquor, undisturbed by crowds thronging shops to get their last drink of toddy, the potent, fresh or fermented palm tree sap which, retailing for 4? a pint, gives India's native drinkers most of their alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay...
...Vitamin B and beat your wife." But on financial grounds, wets were powerful. In many an Indian province liquor taxes account for 25% of total revenue. Liquor consumption has been increasing: tax in 1920 brought in $23,000,000; in 1928, $82,000,000; in 1938, $350,000,000. Bombay's revenue losses were estimated at $10,000,000 annually. To compensate for this, Treasury experts could offer only higher property taxes...
...prohibition went into effect Bombay's whites arose in their hangovers to find 500,000 natives milling in the streets. Egged on by Parsis, bone-dry Moslems paraded, denouncing, not prohibition, but the tax increase, stoned Hindu bystanders. Police and Prohibition Guards (see cut), whose motto is "harder than a diamond, yet softer than a flower," went into action. At the end of it more than 40 had been injured by bullets, blows or bludgeons, a 10 p. m. curfew was clapped on Bombay for 14 days, and assemblies of more than five forbidden. To popularize prohibition, authorities...
...still a wrinkle in his form that needs ironing out. Although a hard worker, Hovey is apt to sky on the recovery and knife in at the catch a little. At three is one of the products of Harvey Love's own teaching, El Moffat, who halls from Bombay, India and had never done any rowing until his Freshman year, last year. Then with hard and conscientious work he took a seat in the Freshman shell and this year stepped into the second boat...