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...emergence of Mahatma Gandhi on the political scene of India is an event of considerable moment. In releasing the leader of the Indian Nationalist Party from jail the British government has opened a new phase of the political situation. When the recent Round Table Conference adjourned the Indian potentates left London apparently well satisfied with the new freedom, restricted though it is, that has been given...
Such a thing as jailing a prominent actress for preferring another man to her husband and proving it, is all but unknown in Italy-or anywhere else. But throughout Italy last week the encyclical of Pope Pius XI covering all forms of amorous activity (TIME, Jan. 19) produced startling results. A national crusade to promote "Fascist Morality" began. Doctors were arrested by the dozen on charges of extinguishing the unborn, pharmacies were raided for contraceptives, the notorious cliques of unnatural persons in Venice, Naples, Capri, were put under investigation, and at Florence prominent, popular Actress Wanda Orlandini was sentenced...
...District Attorney. He was plump, pink, bald, middle-aged George Zerden Medalie, who has a soft, husky voice and gentle brown eyes. Behind District Attorney Medalie's mild exterior, however, was a long and excellent record as a special prosecutor who knew how to send criminals to jail. But what the Senate wanted to know before it confirmed him, what the new appointee had skilfully concealed was whether...
Last month in her little schoolhouse outside Maryville, Mo., Schoolma'am Velma Colter, 20, was raped, murdered. To the crime Raymond Gunn, Negro, confessed. Last week he was being taken from the Maryville jail to the courthouse to stand trial when a mob snatched him out of the hands of Sheriff Havre English, noisily marched him out of town toward the rural schoolhouse. Hundreds followed the procession, heard Gunn beg for mercy...
After the War Lord Reading returned to the India of his cabin boy days as viceroy. Events obliged him to detain both the "Ali Brothers" (Mohammedans) and Mahatma Gandhi in jail, also to impose the hated salt tax against the will of the Indian Assembly, but his "judicial fairness" is remembered. In 1926 he attained the marquessate, may die a duke...