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...answer it must be said that it is by such dusty and often seemingly irrelevant detail that creative knowledge is broadened and the sum of human satisfactions is increased. Without the hum-drummery of fact-finding, Coleridge could never have reared in Xanadu the pleasure dome of the Khan. It is interesting to speculate as to what Coleridge would have made of the masterpiece in question if there had been a Rockefeller to pay the bills...
...touched the red-hot question of India's status. The Conference had touched, and showed signs of splitting on the question of Hindu-Moslem representation in the new legislature. India's 70,000,000 moslems are "the largest minority in the world." When the Aga Khan, No. i Indian Moslem, left London for Paris (he has a home in Paris) last week, it was rumored and denied that he was not gone "for the holidays" but to India for momentous consultations. Stock reasons why Britain must hold India: 1) "she cannot relinquish her trust"; 2) deprived...
Results of a survey by the United Press to determine the world's richest man were published. First on the list was this name: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah Muzaf-far-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mamalik Nizam-ul-Mulk Nizam-ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Usman Ali Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung, 44, the Nizam of Hyderabad in India (TIME, Nov. 24). His wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next...
...Highness later refused to deny a sensational story by Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing that the Aga Khan, bursting the bonds of his bought allegiance, privately declared to fellow Indians last week that either St. Gandhi ought to be let out of jail and brought to London or the Conference ought to move to India...
Before the Conference divided to work in committees, Hindu Brahman Moonje with the Mohammedan Aga Khan and princes of both persuasions signed an epochal private pact of alliance with Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar representing India's 45,000,000 lowly Untouchables (lowest class...